Joint Venture Silicon Valley Wants Changes to Prop 13
Joint Venture Silicon Valley focused on Proposition 13 at a conference last week issuing a report that Proposition 13 should be part of a discussion about restructuring the tax system. No other part of the tax system was in the report’s crosshairs. The report authored by Stephen Levy, Director and Senior Economist of the Center […]
The Speaker’s Scholarship Plan: Too Good to Be True?
There’s an old adage that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. When it comes to politics, it nearly always is. Say for instance a politician told you he could lower the cost of sending your kids to college by 2/3rds. You’d probably respond, “Great. What’s the catch?” Your caution would […]
President Obama Courts Silicon Valley’s New Digital Aristocracy
Crossposted on New Majority President Obama’s San Francisco fundraiser with the tech elites today, along with the upcoming IPO for Facebook, marks the emergence of a new, potentially dominant political force well on its way to surpassing Hollywood and even Wall Street as the business bulwark of the Obama Democratic Party. In 2008 the industry […]
Which Is Anti-Immigrant, Arizona or California?
If you relied on the mainstream media, you would conclude that Arizona is anti-immigrant, while California is pro-immigrant. You would conclude that Republican Arizona Governor Jan Brewer must hate immigrants. After all, she signed SB-1070, which requires police to refer illegal immigrants to Immigration if they are arrested for other crimes. The law was passed […]