What if you could get an initiative on the ballot just for making a donation to the state government? Would that be something people would find acceptable?

Say like $1M cash, you're on the ballot.

Well that's what we've got, only it's cheaper than that. You need about 250K signatures to get on the ballot. Paid signature gatherers get between $1 and $3 per signature (so I read) so let's make it $4, just to account for inflation and needing some extras to cover fraud.

That's a cool $1M and you've got your initiative on the ballot. The Liquor guys are disorganized enough they got TWO initiatives in the same year.

America. The best representative republic that money can buy.