A Pandora’s Box: Suing Oil Companies, Consumers Pay
Some members of the Los Angeles city council hope to join San Francisco, Oakland and New York City is suing oil companies on the principle that the costs associated with climate change (as a result of using fossil fuels) are a burden to the city and its taxpayers. If successful this precedent would open a […]
A DACA solution demands a true bipartisan compromise which includes E-Verify
Now is the time for policy, not politics. Now is the time to get beyond the immigration word games like calling those “anti-immigrant” who in reality are simply opposed to illegal immigration, or calling those a “restrictionist” who don’t necessarily want to restrict immigration beyond the current level, but who really just want to control […]
California: Role Model or Permanent Outlier?
California will enter the New Year as it has entered almost every other one before it—a trend-setter for the nation with goofy notions, and a suspicious outlier to those regions which will never catch up. It is the cranky uncle who takes comfort in watching others squirm and finds nothing wrong with creative disruption […]
California the Broken
I won’t bore readers with the tedious statistics that I have been talking and writing about for years, including but not limited to the fact that as recently as 2014, the oil industry generated nearly $20 million in annual property taxes to Santa Barbara county. Those revenues were used to help fund essential services including […]
Economic Boost from Tax Cuts
Everyday we turn on the news and what do we find? More employees are getting bonuses–more than two million so far. There’s something more that is happening…. Utilities like Baltimore Gas and Electric are lowering their rates and passing on tax benefits to all their customers. And what did we find last week? Not only […]