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Back to homepageBrown, Legislature advance phony pension ‘reform’
Aug. 29, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi There are many books that have sprung up with titles such as “The 2 Percent Solution,” “The Four Percent Solution,” “The Five Percent” solution, “The One Percent Solution,” the 999 Plan, all offering simplistic
Read MoreCap and trade, or tax and raid?
Aug. 28, 2012 Katy Grimes: An auction tax is one of the proposed methods for allocating permits to California businesses and public agencies which are subject to the AB 32 cap and trade program under preparation by the California Air Resources Board. AB
Read MoreGov. Brown, Democrats push lumber tax
Aug. 28, 2012 By Dave Roberts When is a tax not a tax? When it’s called a fee by Gov. Jerry Brown and fellow Democrats. But the $30 million that has been proposed to be sucked out of Californians’ wallets
Read MoreCap and trade “pretend” media auction today
Aug. 28, 2012 Katy Grimes: The California Air Resources Board is holding a webinar for credentialed media today “to familiarize them with the mechanics and purpose of the cap-and-trade practice auction.” It’s a media show and should be interesting. The “practice auction”
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Lance Armstrong should have kept fighting
Aug. 27, 2012 By John Seiler With a name like Lance-Arm-Strong, Lance Armstrong should have kept fighting the anti-doping charges against him. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency just supposedly “stripped” him of his seven titles, although it’s not clear if they
Read MoreFighting public service ‘corruption’
Aug. 27, 2012 By Steven Greenhut SACRAMENTO — During recent travels to Madison and Milwaukee for some research about reform-minded Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s survival of a union-backed recall, I found little residual anger among the friendly folks there,
Read MoreMother’s Market promotes Prop. 37 GMO labeling
Aug. 21, 2012 By John Seiler When shopping yesterday at the Huntington Beach health-food store Mother’s Market, which I’ve patronized for 25 years, they promoted this flyer from the store: “LET’S MAKE HISTORY!” it says, by passing Proposition 37, the
Read MoreProp 39 and AB 1500: A taxing alliance
August 20, 2012 By Katy Grimes The passage of AB 1500 by the Assembly last week demonstrates the gargantuan disconnect California Democrats have with elementary economics, as well as the economics of education. AB 1500 would raise taxes on businesses and
Read MoreThe coming great California pension property tax earthquake
Aug. 16, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The most widespread and persistent folktale about California is that some day the entire state will break away from the North American continent and fall off into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. That
Read MoreBrown’s and CARB’s Tahoe-ist Environmentalism Killing Jobs
Aug. 14, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Gov. Jerry Brown once dabbled in the concept of “Tao” in Zen Buddhist religion. William Voegeii says that what explains Jerry Brown’s “Tao” is his rejection of his father’s values. But it isn’t Brown’s,
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