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Back to homepageDems Put Brakes on Budget Train Wreck
MARCH 28, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI A new Field Poll found that a supermajority of Democrats has swung against tax increases and wants to halt what appears to be an unstoppable future state budget train wreck. In what should have been
Read MoreGOP Finally Gets Budget Action
MARCH 26, 2011 By JOHN SEILER There are a lot of problems with the list of budget demands Republicans proposed, such as retaining redevelopment. (The full list is here.) But at least they’re finally getting a rise out of Democrats.
Read MoreRestored Gann Limit Would Balance Budget
MARCH 25, 2011 By JOHN SEILER The problem with Calfornia’s $25 billion budget deficit is that state spending gushed upward in three wild splurges. I’ll list them here. As I do, recall if your pay was increased each year anything
Read MoreRepublicans Finally Get Some Sense
John Seiler: Republicans finally are wising up to a strategy I suggested to them long ago: Use the initiative process much more often to protect taxpayers and businesses and jobs. The GOP’s minority status means they have almost no influence
Read MoreInvestment Tax Credit Could Boost CA Jobs
MARCH 25, 2011 By KATY GRIMES One senator is trying to offer California manufacturers a break to help stimulate business growth. But even his modest sales-tax credit was met with resistance in a hearing at the Capitol on Wednesday. Inland
Read MoreSuicidal California Amazon Tax
March 24, 2011 By JOHN SEILER Sometimes I wonder if the politicians, special interests and most media in California have a suicide pact among themselves — with 37 million Californians forced to go along. It’s an updated version of the
Read MoreYou Read It Here First
John Seiler: A little over a year ago on CalWatchDog.com, I wrote an analysis headlined, “Census pushing Dems to 2/3 majority.” Although a lot has happened since then, it’s still worth reading. I pointed out that, after the 2010 U.S.
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 MoreTax Increase Vote in November?
John Seiler: The latest plot twist in the soap opera “As the Tax Increase Turns” could be putting Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax increase on a November ballot, instead of in June. Doing so would mean collecting signatures at a cost
Read MoreSeiler Plan to Balance the Budget
John Seiler: Why didn’t somebody think of this before? Balancing the state budget is easy. I call it the Seiler Plan to Balance the Budget. The budget deficit is $25 billion. Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed $13 billion in budget
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