Minimum Wage Truth and Consequences: Who’s Listening?
Let’s hope that voters become more engaged in the minimum wage debate than some elected officials. Voters will be subject to counterarguments in the minimum wage debate. Raising the minimum wage will undoubtedly make things better for minimum wage workers – more to spend, raising some out of poverty. At the same time it likely […]
The President Should Visit All of California
The President came to Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk about how great the economy is doing. While it may look good for some in Los Angeles and San Francisco a trip throughout the Golden State would show the President that many Californians are frustrated with his Administration’s economic policies. The President should take […]
California Bad to its Bones
Any serious student of California knows that the state’s emergence in the past century reflected a triumph of engineering. From the water systems, the dredged harbors, the power stations and the freeway system, California overcame geographical limits of water, power and its often-unmanageable coastline to create a beacon of growth and opportunity. That was then, […]
Tax Subsidies Hurting California
You might think individual tax subsidies, such as the film credit for Hollywood that just was tripled to $330 million, would help California. After all, they cut the taxes of some companies. Certainly, they help those individual companies. But unless spending is cut to pay for it — which never happens — other businesses have to […]