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Back to homepageProposed train demo all show, no go
JUNE 12, 2010 Apparently, 12.6 percent unemployment, a $20 billion budget deficit and half a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities isn’t of a legacy for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now he wants a bullet train running – in just five
Read MoreRead Skelton's lips: More new taxes!
I’ll give L.A. Times columnist George Skelton marks for consistency: He always favors tax increases. Here he is back in 2007, even before the economy crashed, calling for “a temporary tax increase to balance the books.” And I’m consistent, too:
Read MoreSkelton: Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong
For decades, literally, I’ve been battling the tax-increase obsession of L.A. Times columnist George “Not Red” Skelton. His latest is another blast at one of the few things Arnold did right: the 2003 car tax cut (until Arnold raised it in
Read MoreLegislators push for higher taxes
MAY 5, 2010 By MICHAEL BARNHART and BRYAN LEONARD Pity California taxpayers. They are afflicted with the nation’s highest sales and gasoline taxes, and a particularly punishing income tax. And still “progressives” both inside and outside the state claim that
Read MoreS.F. should declare independence
I don’t like Arizona’s new immigration law, because it increases the arbitrary authority of the polizei, as William Grigg explains. (The real solution to the immigration problem is Ron Paul’s: Build the border fence, and cut off all tax money
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Meg's bad exemplars
It’s bad enough that Meg Whitman’s campaign chairperson is Pete Wilson, whose governorship almost destroyed the state with wild tax increases. Now, her campaign is looking at two hideous politicians from elsewhere as models for her campaign: Current NY City
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Taxes, Whitman and Skelton
As I’ve noted over the years many times, L.A. Times California columnist George Skelton is the man who never saw a tax he didn’t like — or a tax cut he didn’t hate. He’s at it again today, attacking Meg
Read MoreIs Public Transit Bankrupt?
March 31, 2010 By KATY GRIMES With the announcement this week by Sacramento Regional Transit that it is reducing bus and train service by 22 percent, it’s never too late to address the problems faced by the chronic deficit-plagued transit systems in
Read MoreEnviros trade in human misery
March 29, 2010 One of the most unusual vote-buying scams the Obama administration may have used to pass its health care socialization plan was an alleged promise to two Democratic congressmen to increase federal water supplies to the San Joaquin
Read MoreTruth-Slinging at the GOP convention
When someone decried “mudslinging” by political opponents, the late columnist Mike Royko replied that it really was “truth-slinging.” Although politicians are prone to lie, during a campaign they have to be careful to vet the charges made against opponents, because
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