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Its budget gap growing and its political process for addressing the gap unhinged, California will begin Thursday to pay vendors and taxpayers with i.o.u.’s, only the second time the state has adopted the emergency payment method since the Great Depression.

California Starting to Pay With I.O.U.’s - NYTimes.com

This is what happens when democracy gets too direct.