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Does Budget Forum Portend Tax Hikes?
DEC. 9, 2010 By KATY GRIMES In what appeared to be an event designed to prepare California for tax increases, Governor-elect Jerry Brown held a well-attended budget forum on Wednesday to discuss California’s precarious state budget and extraordinary deficit. The
Read MoreArnold Rewards Tax Traitors
John Seiler: In California, no bad deed by a politician goes unrewarded. Gov. Arnold “Taxpayer Terminator” Schowarzenegger got six Republicans in the Legislature to sell out their “no new taxes” pledges, betray taxpayers, and vote for his record $13 billion
Read MoreSteinberg's Bizarro Question
Steven Greenhut: At the governor-elect’s budget briefing today, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg — always the voice of the public sector — asked what percentage of the state’s 12-percent-plus unemployment rate was caused by the unemployment of public sector
Read MoreDutton At Forum To Listen
Katy Grimes: Much ado is being made over Senate Republican Leader Bob Dutton choosing to sit in the audience with colleagues today at Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s budget forum, instead of on the dais with the other Senate and Assembly leaders.
Read MoreForgetting Pearl Harbor Day
Anthony Pignataro: So I just got back from a week’s vacation and saw that still-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proclaimed yesterday to be Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day. “The morning of December 7, 1941 is truly a date that will never be forgotten,”
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