Business Community Should have Before – and Should Now – Consider Supporting a Referendum on Taxes
This is an I-told-you-so column. I’m sure we can dig up a number of columns where my projections were wrong, but today, given the results of the election, I’m bringing back a column from July 7, 2011. I urged the business community to consider seeking a change in the state constitution to allow referendums on […]
5 Reasons Why Overreach Won’t Be a Problem
California’s political and media elites have discovered a new enemy against which they must fight, and its name is Overreach. The specific concern is that Democrats, newly empowered by a supermajority and a winning vote on Prop 30, will go too far. Tax too much. Spend too much. And above all attempt to fix too […]
Secession Fever: Don’t Catch It
Crossposted on CalWatchdog SACRAMENTO — Psychiatrists talk about the progressive stages of grief people experience after suffering a devastating loss in their personal lives, moving from denial to anger to bargaining (i.e., trying to strike a “deal” with a higher power) to depression and, finally, to acceptance. Political scientists ought to come up with a […]