Prop. 30 Ads – Wrong (Thank Goodness)
The new ads touting the governor’s tax increase emphasize that the money will be locked away for public education. It’s a phony claim, but ironically that’s a good thing. It would be the worse for being true. The fact is that the state’s budget process is too constricted rather than not constricted enough. The fiscal […]
Press Sees through Misleading Prop 30 Ads
It is pretty evident that Proposition 30 was created with one specific feature to sell the measure to voters, using deception. And when the ads promoting Prop 30 were released yesterday, the press was not fooled. The measure creates something called an Education Protection Account to receive the new tax dollars raised by income and […]
Brown’s Vetoes Are Check on Legislature
If there was ever any doubt that the governor’s veto power provides adult supervision for the Legislature, all you need to do is look at SB1480, the bat bill. That’s bats, as in furry nighttime flying things. Under Democratic state Sen. Ellen Corbett’s measure, you would need permission from the Department of Fish and Game […]
The World According to CARB: Not Clobbering Businesses with a Huge Hidden Energy Tax is a ‘Windfall?’
The recent statement by a California Air Resources Board (CARB) spokesman that not charging major California employers a billion dollars a year or more for emissions allowances would be a “windfall” for the businesses was breathtaking in its audacity. Business leaders held a news conference Tuesday reiterating their support for the goals of AB 32 […]
Black Gold Could Revive the Golden State—if Politicians Got Out of the Way
Crossposted on City Journal After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, the Obama administration slapped a moratorium on deepwater drilling in the Gulf and backed away from plans to expand drilling along the eastern United States. Louisiana’s governor, Bobby Jindal, saw thousands of jobs at stake and […]