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Back to homepageSkelton's "pension envy"
John Seiler: It’s a bad Freudian connotation to an fraudulent Freudian doctrine, but here’s what L.A. Times’ Columnist for Tax Raising George “Not Red” Skelton wrote today: “Pressured by politicians and a private sector with pension envy, four public employee
Read MoreAnother economic dip coming?
JUNE 21, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Here’s something Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown should be debating. As the California budget is haggled over by the governor, Legislature and the powerful government unions, one thing everyone assumes is that the California
Read MoreDMV workers speak out
JUNE 17, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO For reasons that shouldn’t surprise anyone, employees of the California Department of Motor Vehicles have a lot to say. In May, when DMV officials began circulating a “Two Minute DMV Employee Survey,” 4,547 staffers
Read MoreCal recovery lags USA
JUNE 7, 2010 By JOHN SEILER California’s economy is recovering, but more slowly than that of the rest of America, according to the June 3 forecast of the A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research at Chapman University, which I
Read MoreThe many faces of Arnold
Anthony Pignataro: Unlike his last three predecessors, Arnold Schwarzenegger will make a fascinating subject for a biography after he leaves the governor’s office next year. The former actor and body builder’s politics fall somewhere between “scattered” and “all over the
Read More'No on 17' funding questioned
JUNE 4, 2010 By LAURA SUCHESKI Both proponents and opponents of controversial Proposition 17 are spending the eleventh hour before the June 8 primary lobbing accusations at each other from the trenches. Prop. 17 would modify a previous law enacted
Read MoreCA budget tops sensible limits
MAY 27, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Budget time. So I thought I would revisit an analytical tool I devised a few years ago to help better understand the California state budget. Back in the early 2000s, I was pouring over
Read MoreDavid Crane, rock star
Those of us interested in pension reform don’t have many rock star personalities in our midst, but Schwarzenegger adviser David Crane fits the bill after his fabulous testimony Monday on SB919, Dennis Hollingsworth’s pension-reform bill that was considered (and a
Read MoreOpen gun carry under fire
MAY 5, 2010 By JOHN SEILER Gun rights activists have stirred up controversy in recent months by carrying, and displaying, firearms in the open in California, including in restaurants and coffee shops. This has led to a movement to ban
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Dems want national ID card
With all the protests swirling around Arizona’s immigration law, why aren’t there similar protests scheduled against a proposal by Democrats for a National ID card? Arizona’s law, whatever one things of it, at least is confined to Arizona. But a National
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