Job Killing Bills Hobble California in Global Competition
Crossposted at CAJobKillers.com. CalChamber released its list of Job Killing legislation yesterday – 23 bills that would further curb California’s competitiveness and chill our investment climate. Expect on cue from labor unions and the tax-and-regulation lobby: tearing of hair and rending of garments. In their view, reforms to improve flexibility for workers and expedite permits […]
Proposition 13 Opponents Home in on Business
Originally published in the Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may not have known it, but when he went to Sacramento last month with calls to amend Proposition 13’s protections on California businesses, he was calling for almost 400,000 Californians to lose their jobs. A new study released by Pepperdine University professors […]
Lavish, Unfunded Public Employee Benefits Threaten City’s Solvency, Ability to Provide Basic Services
Triage is defined as the process of determining the priority of patients’ treatments based on the severity of their condition. Unfortunately for taxpayers in California, the kind of triage taking places in our cities is not benefitting those parties’ whose condition is the most severe. On the hook for enormous unfunded public employees’ salaries, pensions, […]
L.A. City Budget Requires Tough, Long-Term Decisions
When the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for the City of Los Angeles begins a 50-page report on budget options with an introduction titled “A cautionary Tale: The City of Stockton, California,” it is clear that a serious fiscal challenge faces the second largest city in the nation. On Feb. 28, 2012, the Stockton City Council […]