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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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CA continues to inhale ‘Medical’ marijuana
Faced with a growing chorus of concern among municipalities, California legislators are about to consider an innovative approach to the regulation of marijuana — tightening standards for the prescription and supply of medical-use pot. Though one new bill offers what
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Split-roll tax bill strikes at Prop. 13
Almost every year in the California Legislature Proposition 13 becomes a target for those seeking higher taxes. The 1978 tax-limitation measure, among other things, requires a two-thirds vote for local tax increases. As budget maneuvers heat up in the
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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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