Courts Jump on Revenue Raising Bandwagon
Tax and revenue increases are piling up on Californians–passed by voters, approved by legislators, and now the courts are getting into the act. On the same day that the legislature passed the $52 billion gas tax, California’s Third District Court of Appeal on a 2 to 1 vote upheld a lower court ruling that businesses paying […]
Business Owners, Grassroots Supporters and Lawmakers Stand Together to Stop Shakedown Lawsuits
They would have preferred staying home to tend to their stores, shops and services. But they had to be there to stand up for their economic livelihood and to protect the jobs of their loyal employees. More than 150 small business owners and supporters gathered for a boisterous rally April 4 on the lawns of […]
Dissecting San Jose Unified
Normally, California school districts don’t face financial stress when state revenues are robust. Usually that stress arises only when state revenues shrink as a result of declining stock markets. But schools in California are experiencing stress right now despite record revenues from a long bull market and a tax increase. One illustration is the San Jose Unified […]
Will Democrats get Another Supermajority Vote that could Raise Gas Prices?
The power of the California Democratic party’s ‘supermajority’ was mightily tested Thursday, with the nail-biting passage of a $52 billion transportation package, that will add 12 cents to the price of gasoline. What does that bode for the other big lift coming up in the legislature, the reauthorization of the the state’s landmark climate change […]