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Back to homepageOne way TX is worse than CA
March 15, 2013 By John Seiler On CalWatchDog.com, we’ve often compared California unfavorably to Texas on taxes, regulations and general business climate. But fairness dictates we should show where California is better than Texas. One area is the abuse of
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Pay no attention to the political consultants behind the curtain
March 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes As long as I have followed politics closely — since Junior High school in the 1970’s — I’ve said political consultants will be the death of the Republican Party. And now, finally, a political
Read MoreRebuking Bowen: High standards shouldn’t be surprising
March 15, 2013 By Chris Reed Democratic lawmakers have been a bit more likely to discomfit the status quo and show high expectations than normal this year. A Senate committee report strongly suggesting that school districts were stealing federal school
Read MoreAnother Sacramento business bites the dust
March 14, 2013 By Katy Grimes Coke — it’s the real thing. But not for 60 Sacramento area Coca-Cola employees who are about to lose their jobs. Only two months after Coca-Cola, Inc. purchased the locally-owned Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Company,
Read MoreDe Leon clueless on why people can’t retire
March 14, 2013 By John Seiler A story in Roll Call magazine, which reports on the U.S. Congress, inadvertently explains why Democrats don’t get what’s going on in California. It reports: “Kevin de León, a California state senator, likes to
Read MoreSan Diego mayor resumes public-employee enrichment schemes
March 14, 2013 By Chris Reed Well, that didn’t take long. Bob Filner — a paleoliberal former Democratic congressman who was elected mayor of San Diego in November — is embracing the same sort of ridiculously generous public-employee compensation policies
Read MoreDemocrats also need to rethink policies
March 13, 2013 By John Seiler Since their drubbing in last November’s election, Republicans have been taking a lot of criticism about their polices, especially for California. We’ve done a good bit of it on our site. But Democrats also
Read MoreLatinos eliminate taxes — in Puerto Rico
March 13, 2013 By John Seiler The impression seems to be that Latinos want more government, and in particular more taxes. Not the case. According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, Chile actually has more economic freedom than the
Read MoreCA wants oil taxes without oil
March 12, 2013 By John Seiler Steven Greenhut, whose column we run, has written an amusing article in Bloomberg about how Californians want oil tax money, but not the oil: “The only thing California’s environmentally friendly Democratic legislators prefer to regulating
Read MoreGOP congressman shows how to win Latino votes
March 12, 2013 By John Seiler With California Republicans soul-searching about how to get more Latinos to vote for them, advice comes from Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., on why an Anglo like him keeps winning in a heavily Hispanic district:
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