Fox and Hounds Daily Celebrates 10 Years
Today we are celebrating the tenth anniversary of Fox and Hounds Daily. We started Fox and Hounds to offer a platform for debate on important policy, political and business issues. As someone who had good success but also experienced many frustrations in getting opinion pieces before readers in statewide newspapers because of limited capacity, I […]
The Split Roll Property Tax May be on Ice, but Make Way for the Split Roll Sales Tax.
Senator Bob Hertzberg last week unveiled a long-promised “modernization” of the state sales tax, but it’s mostly just an old-fashioned tax shift from shoppers to businesses. The guts of the plan are simple: over a three-year transition period, cut the existing state sales tax rate by two percentage points (from 4.75% to 2.75%) and enact a new […]
If California Wants to Resist, Let’s Start with Trade Policy
Less than 32 percent of California voters who went to the polls on Election Day in 2016 pulled the lever for Donald Trump. These “deplorables” are probably delighted that Hillary Clinton isn’t president and pleased in general with how Trump has governed. Trump’s trade policies, though, should be another matter. During the campaign, Trump railed […]
A California-Texas Summit
To: Governor Jerry Brown of California and Governor Greg Abbott of Texas From: Joe Mathews Re: Summit If North and South Korea can have a peace summit, why can’t California and Texas do the same? The United States desperately needs its two biggest states to figure out how to keep the country together. Our nation’s […]