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Back to homepageActually, tax increase would slam Calif. economy
April 17, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Dan Walters, call your office! Or call a reputable economist for therapy. Walters writes that a marginal tax rate increase amounting to $9 to $10 billion in new revenue would reflect only 0.5 percent
Read MoreVaccination bill gouges parental rights
April 17, 2012 By Katy Grimes Discussion about the proper role of the Legislature and state government is never more important than when individual liberties and parental rights are under siege. Anytime the Legislature inserts itself into health care issues,
Read MoreWarning for CA: Harrisburg confronts bankruptcy
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh in a CalWatchDog.com Special Series of 12 in-depth articles on municipal bankruptcy. In a warning for California, it examines the bankruptcy of Harrisburg, Pa. What happened in Harrisburg, Pa.? One day there was nothing
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Johnny Cash sings the tax blues
April 16, 2012 By John Seiler Tomorrow is Tax Day. It’s April 17, this year, so the government gives us two more days than usual before it skins us alive. Government is nothing bug a gang of thieves backed by
Read MoreLos Angeles banning plastic bags now, paper later
May 16, 2012 By Brian Calle and Josephine Djuhana Paper or plastic? Residents of Los Angeles soon may no longer hear that question at grocery checkout stands as the City of Angels has taken steps to ban certain grocery bags,
Read MoreWhat’s wrong with more opinions?
April 16, 2012 By John Seiler I don’t get cable TV. No way I’m paying $40 a month. So I’m not a “Fox News,” watcher. I also remain mad at them for pushing the disastrous Iraq War to boost profits the way
Read MoreWhat Arnold’s memoirs need: A chapter on his betrayal of California
April 16, 2012 By Chris Reed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s offbeat request last week on his Facebook page for the public to tell him what to write about in his pending memoirs got the result he wanted: lots of attention. “More than
Read More‘World-class’ Sacramento deal dead
April 15, 2012 By Katy Grimes Ding, dong, the arena deal is dead. The free market won. Despite the failure of 13 years of efforts to build a publicly funded new sports arena in Sacramento, the-arena project-which-wouldn’t-die may have finally croaked–thanks to Mayor
Read MoreJohn Shirey: Master of Disaster
Steven Greenhut: As head of the California Redevelopment Association, John Shirey helped lead many local cities into a deep fiscal pit based on the redevelopment borrow-and-spend policies that promised great windfalls from these crony capitalist deals. Shirey was smart when
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