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"Tax haters"
John Seiler: George Skelton’s tax obsession is in fine form in today’s column in the equally tax-obsessed L.A. Times. Skelton writes against “tax haters” who “acted out of knee-jerk ideology” in opposing the tax increase voters rejected in 2009. The
Read MoreA Name Change!
Anthony Pignataro: One of my jobs around here is to monitor the CalWatchdog Twitter feed (we’re @CalWatchdog, if you’d like to follow us). Most people we follow — journalists, political consultants, legislators and the like — will send out a
Read MoreBullet Train Costs Exploding
DEC. 22, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO Trying to pin down an actual, quantifiable, explainable cost estimate for the 800-mile-long proposed high-speed rail system is one of the great games of covering the project. Going back even just two years, a
Read MoreLockyer, Levy Are Clueless
Steven Greenhut: It’s shocking for the state’s highest-ranking finance officer to express such ill-informed views on economic competitiveness in California [California’s not broken]. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and fellow author Stephen Levy, a liberal economist who believes in higher taxes
Read MoreDuh Headline Of The Day
Steven Greenhut: The front page of the LAT Extra section of the Los Angeles Times featured the “dog bites man” story of the day: “Child agency wasted funds, audit reports.” [Note that the online headline differs from the one in
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