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Video: The truth about plastic bag bans

The ban on bags at the grocery store has multiple unintended consequences. John Phillips tells Alexis Garcia why the bag ban won’t make anybody healthier.

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Video: A potential CA energy boom

House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy talks about energy policy and a potential energy boom in California.

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Video: Can CA tax its way to prosperity?

California taxes are going up, but according to Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist, the new revenue isn’t going solve any problems. He explains why real change in the state need to come in the form of pension reform.

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Video: Is cap and trade good policy for CA?

Writer Stephen Moore, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, discusses how California’s energy policy is driving businesses out of the state.

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Video: Art Laffer: California vs. Texas

There are two types of states in the United States. Some are hiking taxes and others are cutting taxes. Economist Art Laffer explains how the experiments within the states are playing out nationwide and culminating with the difference between Texas

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Video: Taking on the teachers unions’ political agenda

Rebecca Friedrichs is an Orange County school teacher who is fighting for her right not to be associated with the political activity the nation’s most powerful union. She is ready to take her fight all the way to the United

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Video: Would a flat tax make CA’s comeback last?

CalWatchdog.com editor-in-chief Brian Calle discusses the California economic comeback with writer Stephen Moore.

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Video: Stephen Moore: CA is crushing the middle class

Stephen Moore, formerly of the Wall Street Journal, gives his take on California and what he terms its entitlement mentality.

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Video: An unsustainable recovery in California

Former California State Finance Director Tom Campbell gives his take on California’s economic outlook.  

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Video: Jerry Brown’s biggest challenge in CA

Chapman University Law School Dean Tom Campbell explains to CalWatchdog.com’s editor-in-chief Brian Calle how he believes the biggest challenge Gov. Jerry Brown faces is the “regulatory death that businesses see when they look at California.”  

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