Fire The State Board of Education
After three years of work, the California Department of Education has produced its new dashboard. Put simply, it’s a deceptive and useless joke. What’s wrong with it? Where to begin? Academic measures are buried and misleading. (The LA Times noted that schools where most students don’t test as proficient in math can end up with […]
SB 567 Represents a Massive Tax Increase and a Potential International Trade War
Despite multiple tax increases being adopted by voters just last November, SB 567 (Lara) was introduced that, if enacted, will result in another multi-billion dollar tax increase on businesses and individuals. And, the bill could once again raise the ire of major international trading partners, including Great Britain and Japan. With the newly-acquired super-majority status […]
California Legislature Rolls Out Wave of Good, Bad, and Ugly Bills for Small Business
The California Legislature never ceases to amaze with some of their most creative, imaginative schemes to tax, regulate, and mandate small businesses and taxpayers in new ways. It’s a dangerous game—one minute, we might joke in passing about how California would love to figure out a way to assess property taxes on a satellite orbiting […]
Gov. Brown won’t give up on the future — of his 1970s youth
Gov. Jerry Brown will not take no for an answer. His administration is pushing ahead to issue $2.6 billion in bonds to keep up work on the bullet train, even though the funding for the $64 billion project is drying up everywhere else. The federal government’s initial $3.3 billion, part of the 2009 stimulus bill, […]