Will the GOP Come Apart?
Donald Trump scored major victories on Tuesday night, but failed to sweep all the five primaries. In exit polls of the five states, about one-fourth of GOP primary voters said that they would not vote for him in the general election. Many pundits are saying that the GOP is on the brink of coming apart. Will it happen? As Bill Clinton […]
Ending Lawsuit Abuse Against Small Business
Abusive lawsuits punishing small businesses are an old story in California. California’s complex regulatory requirements often entice opportunistic attorneys to file lawsuits over minor infractions of labor and environmental regulations without giving businesses a chance to correct the situation. Now a push is on to fix the problem. Assembly member Don Wagner introduced AB 1948 to […]
Who Will Pay For the California Drug Price Relief Act?
Big Pharma remains in the headlines, and those headlines have centered around the Golden State lately. After all, the California Drug Price Relief Act did earn itself a ballot measure next November with well over 500,000 signatures (only 366,880 were needed), and according to recent polling research by the Kaiser Family Foundation, over 70% of […]
The Homeless Crisis Question that LA’s Political Leaders Run from: How are We Going to Pay for It?
In late February, the City indicated that it was investigating a ballot measure that would authorize a new tax, fee, or bond offering to fund the City’s homeless plans that are estimated to cost $1.85 billion over the next ten years. On March 9, the County’s Chief Executive Officer issued a report outlining five alternatives […]
Preliminary Report Pegs Pension and Retiree Health Care Problem at $1.2 Trillion
The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIFER) estimated that California’s pension and retiree health care unfunded liabilities exceeded $1.2 trillion in 2013–significantly higher than all previous reports, according to preliminary figures obtained from SIFEF by Insolvent Film. The Stanford study the estimated total unfunded liabilities for pension and retiree health care (aka “other post employment benefits” […]