More Skirmishes on Prop 30 Extension
Another piece has been moved on the November ballot chess board. Last week attorneys for the California Teachers Association and California Hospital Association submitted another version of an extension of the top brackets of California’s personal income tax. These brackets were added, ostensibly on a temporary basis, by Proposition 30 in 2012. The new proposal […]
Bold Action to Bolster Economic Resilience
The San Francisco Bay Area is an economic powerhouse. The region’s innovation industries, from high tech to biotech, helped lead California out of the Great Recession. We are near full employment in some areas, and are responsible for 53.5 percent of the state’s net job growth since 2007. And while we are home to just […]
Paris and the Politics of Climate
To some, particularly in the green movement, this month’s Paris climate change summit represents something like the great synods of the early Christian era, where truth and policy, for example, on pastoral celibacy, were determined by the princes of the church. Some others, largely marginalized on the fringes of the Right, insist the whole extravaganza […]
New Taxes Are Not Necessary
There is an old expression, “carrying coals to Newcastle,” to describe a useless activity or fool’s errand. Sort of like shipping pineapples to Hawaii or, bringing it closer to home, sending more tax dollars to Sacramento. The truth is, Sacramento is awash in cash. The Legislature’s budget analyst estimates that this fiscal year will end […]