Does Brown’s Compromise Guarantee its Defeat?
Five million dollars and three months from now, Democratic leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown may wake up and realize they’ve bought themselves a pig in a poke in their newest scheme to raise taxes. In January, Brown proposed a tax initiative to raise sales taxes and high end income taxes over three years to help […]
Fix Death Penalty, Don’t End It
The death penalty process in California is broken. Opponents of the death penalty claim that abolishing the death penalty and replacing it with a lifetime prison term will save California money while adequately punishing those convicted of committing society’s most heinous crimes. Common sense substantiates none of these claims. How much money will be saved […]
ADA Lawsuit Reform – Is It Possible?
You no doubt are aware that there is a group of trial lawyers running around the State of California filing lawsuits against small businesses and even cities are that not compliant with the American with Disabilities Act. The California Commission on Disability Access has spent more than three years trying to get its house in […]
Revving Up Higher Property Taxes
Crossposted on CalWatchDog Every year the Legislature attempts to rewrite Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative that successfully returned property value assessments to 1975 levels, limited property taxes to 1 percent of assessed valuation and capped annual property tax increases to 2 percent. The 2012 attack of Proposition 13 was launched last week at an […]