It’s Raining Tax Increase Petition Signatures
You would think that the people of California are eager to raise taxes given the news the end of last week that three tax initiative proponents were filing millions of signatures in support of tax increase proposals designed for the November ballot. Governor Brown says he has the signatures in hand to qualify his tax […]
Investing in Higher Education is an Investment in our Economic Future
Cross posted at CalChamber.com. California has become notorious for its competitive economic disadvantages, including the high cost of labor, uncertainty from litigation and regulatory delay, and high state and local taxes. Much of the debate about improving our economic performance has been over how to reduce these disadvantages. A welcoming business climate is indispensible to […]
GOP: Takes Down the Small Tent
Originally published in the Los Angeles Times It was Richard Nixon who brought me into the Republican fold. He was running for president, and I had recently arrived in California from Austria, which I’d left because the European socialist mentality wasn’t big enough for my dreams. Growing up, I was surrounded by kids whose greatest […]
Schwarzenegger’s Bizarre Analysis
Cross posted on CalWatchDog I love it when politicians have their chance in power, squander their opportunities, then spend the rest of their career lecturing us about how to reform government. Arnold Schwarzenegger was not just a disappointment, he was a fraud — and a particularly embarrassing one at that. Now he is playing martyr, […]