The Gubernatorial Candidates Are Missing Three Big Agendas
What are you going to do if it all goes off the rails? Politicians are advised not to advise hypotheticals, but the candidates for governor need to be pressed to explain how they would address some likely negative turns in California in the years ahead. The candidates are rolling out policy agendas, with Gavin Newsom […]
California continues its legacy of leading the nation with hostile, predatory legal climate
Today the American Tort Reform Foundation issued its 2017-2018 Judicial Hellholes report, ranking civil courts in California among the nation’s most unfair. It is no secret the State of California leads the nation with its hostile legal climate which rewards predatory litigation on the backs of struggling small businesses across the state. Our state being […]
No Trigger in GOP Tax Plan—Like CA Once Had
The U.S. Senate passed a tax bill Saturday morning but not before shunting aside the idea of setting a “trigger” to raise taxes if economic growth did not provide enough revenues to avert a growing budget deficit. The idea of a “trigger” to deal with an unsolved deficit was once adopted by the California legislature, […]
How far can Democrats go to help unions?
Undeniably, California’s dominant Democratic Party is joined at the hip with labor unions, even though scarcely a sixth of the state’s workers belong to unions. Unsurprisingly, therefore, Democratic politicians push laws and regulations to help unions expand their memberships. They are motivated, they say, by their belief that workers’ lives are improved by union representation. […]