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Steven Greenhut: I was recently on a left-leaning radio show where the host and callers echoed the standard Democratic talking point that the key to solving the state’s budget crisis is to make the rich pay their fair share of
Read MoreI Can't Afford a Tax Increase
John Seiler: I usually make coffee at home. But this morning, I got a Starbucks. Fishing around in my wallet for the money, I noticed I only had a couple of dollars left. Yet I recently patronized the cash machine.
Read MoreSteve Lopez Misleads on Tax Hike
John Seiler: Today L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez makes it seem as if, as his headline puts it, “Saving the state would cost $260” each per year. Never mind that saving $100,000 pensions from cuts isn’t exactly “saving the state.”
Read MoreJobs First
John Seiler: Anti-tax folks seem to have a hard time pushing their message. Everything gets wrapped up in a “deal,” real or imagined, with Gov. Jerry Brown to put a vote on his $12 billion tax increase before voters in
Read MoreYour Taxes Already Up $700
John Seiler: Jerry Brown’s $12 billion tax increase, which he wants on a June ballot, comes to about $1,000 a year per family. Reuters just reported that the average American family will pay $700 more a year in gas costs,
Read MoreA Tradeoff For Tax Increase Vote?
Katy Grimes: With the budget conference committee’s passage of Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget plan yesterday, Assembly Speaker John Perez announced that he wants to bring the budget to the floor for a vote next week. Will this be a drill,
Read MoreTaxes Don't Fix Obesity
Katy Grimes: Despite the stated goal, Assemblyman Bill Monning’s proposed soda tax is just another money grab. Just like the recently announced soda-tax approved by Sacramento’s City Council, Monning claims that his goal is to fight obesity. Monning, a Democrat
Read MoreFacebook Expanding – Elsewhere
Katy Grimes: The wildly popular social networking website Facebook is expanding, but not in California. With more than 500 million members, Facebook is adding a second data center, costing $450 million, but this time it is in North Carolina. The
Read MoreTraitorous tax increasers lose
John Seiler: One good result from the election. Traitorous tax increasers Abel Maldonado and Mike Villines lost their statewide races, respectively for lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner. Both Republicans betrayed the taxpayers they had pledged to protect when they signed
Read MoreL.A. Times Exhales Prop. 19
John Seiler: I thought the L.A. Times was supposed to be “progressive” and “liberal”? Actually, they’re an establishment, elitist, government-loving paper. As shown by their editorial opposing Prop. 19, which would legalize marijuana in California. It’s the same position taken
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