Cal Chamber List of ‘Job Killer’ Bills
An annual occurrence in Sacramento is the California Chamber of Commerce issuing a list of "job killer " bills. Earlier this week, the Chamber released this year’s list. The Chamber found 37 bills that would cripple job creation and keep California mired in its economic recession.
As I have argued on this page many times before, the way for California to crawl out of its financial hole is create more jobs, which will increase the wealth of the people and enrich government coffers.
A few years ago, Larry Kosmont, who, in conjunction with the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College, produces the well-respected Cost-of-Doing-Business Survey estimated that creating 173,000 new jobs in the state would provide $35 billion in tax revenue over ten years.
Tea Party time in California?
This article originally appeared on CalWatchDog.com
Normally a trendsetter, California might be a laggard in following
the political revolutions back east. On Tuesday, the Establishment of
both parties took a beating from voters upset at the most dysfunctional
government most Americans have lived under.
In Kentucky, Rand Paul wiped out Trey Grayson, the GOP Establishment candidate, by 59 percent to 35 percent. Paul is the son of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who lost the Republican Party’s presidential bid but easily won the campaign’s war of ideas almost by default.
Ron Paul’s predictions of a financial meltdown, memorably in the
debates of 2007 and early 2008, proved prescient and have increased his
popularity, as have numerous YouTube snippets of his TV appearances and speeches.
From the Brown Papers: Burton, Federal Taxes and Mosquitoes
John Burton now leads the California Democratic Party. In 1978, he was a member of Congress. The day after Prop 13 passed that June, he took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives for a one-minute statement, which I found in Gov. Jerry Brown’s briefing papers on Prop 13:
"Mr. Speaker, the people of California voted on a proposition yesterday that will have the effect of sending at least $700 or $800 million more to the Federal Treasury. They voted out of their disgust for the 8 years of the Reagan administration out there, which raised the taxes by better than $2.7 billion and never addressed the property tax relief problem.
"Mr. Speaker, I would just ask, as we sit here today, to have a moment of silence for those who live in mosquito abatement districts in California, because they have just been wiped out and all of the money will go to the State capitol, where Gov. Jerry Brown in 2 weeks will stand with Howard Jarvis and say, ‘I knew we could do it.’"
The Grand Canyon of Boycotts
Los Angeles is a creative place. You can depend on the city to figure out some innovative way to punish businesses.
Just
last week, City Council members decided they didn’t like Arizona’s new
law that cracks down on illegal immigrants, so they came up with an
out-of-the-box way to flog businesses. They ordered city departments to
see if they could kill any contracts with companies headquartered in
that state.
That’ll
teach those companies. How dare they be located in Arizona and actually
sell their goods or services here? Los Angeles will make them hurt.