Tag "California budget"
Back to homepage'Mary Kay Tax' Mugs Small Businesses
JULY 27, 2011 By KATY GRIMES Call it the Mary Kay Tax. It hits small businesses — such as Mary Kay and Avon distributors — with heavy administrative costs, while bringing a pittance to the state treasury. It’s a tax
Read MoreNew Rules For Amazon Tax
Katy Grimes: After biting debate today on the new Internet tax, the Board of Equalization decided that some rules of play were needed. The controversial internet tax, the recent law passed which imposes “use” taxes on out-of-state retailers and small affiliate businesses, already
Read MoreU.S.-Calif. Stuck in Stagnation Spiral
JULY 26, 2011 BY JOHN SEILER Welcome to the desert of economic and jobs growth. I keep reminding people that California actually still is part of the United States of America. That we are not the “eighth largest world economy,”
Read MoreS.F. Subway Derails Into Boondoggle
JULY 22, 2011 By KATY GRIMES The California High-Speed Rail Authority isn’t the state’s only massive choo-choo boondoggle. San Francisco boasts the Central Subway project, a wasteful train system all its own. Fortunately, citizen volunteers, transportation and rail experts and local writers
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Redevelopment Partners In Slime
Katy Grimes: Trying to fill the thrice-vacant City Manager position, Sacramento’s City Council made a job offer to a candidate yesterday. But the politically incestuous connection local politicians have with John Shirey, the candidate and current head of the California Redevelopment
Read MoreLawmakers Push Harebrained Bills
Katy Grimes: A ridiculous bill which would have California condo and home owners replacing lawns and traditional grass with astro turf, was just vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown. Thankfully. SB 759, authored by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, which would have required homeowners associations to “allow”
Read MoreSchool Food Statism Makes Kids Sick
JULY 18, 2011 With many public schools now feeding children breakfast and lunch, and even forbidding parents to send homemade lunches to school for their children, it is obvious that the state has decided that it is a better parent.
Read MoreEconomic Decline Accelerating
John Seiler: The recent phony budget deal that Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law anticipated $4 billion in extra revenues from a booming economy. Oops. All the indicators coming out show that the economy is declining again, meaning tax revenues
Read MoreFed Debt Default Imperils CA Budget
JULY 14, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Purgatory is a temporary place of agony, torment and suffering between heaven and hell. that is apparently where California’s state budget might be headed if the federal government, by failing to raise the federal
Read MoreAssembly Budget Advice To Congress
Katy Grimes: In what should have been an thoroughly embarrassing move on Monday, California’s Assembly voted and passed a resolution to tell Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. Really. Even with my writer’s imagination, I could not make this
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