Coming: A Clash of “Fair Share” Tax Increase Proposals Aimed at Business
The campaign to make the rich and corporations pay their so-called “fair share” in taxes marches on in California. One can hardly turn around without running into a politician or a spending interest advocate who demands that high-end taxpayers or corporations pay their “fair share” of taxes. In fact, there are so many different variants […]
California’s Attorney General enforces travel ban to South Carolina – yet turns a blind eye to governor’s trip to El Salvador
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced April 2 that he was extending California’s ban on taxpayer-funded trips to the State of South Carolina, saying it allows private faith-based groups to withhold adoption services over moral objections, effectively permitting discrimination against LGBTQ people. Well and good, but why is the AG going silent about Governor Newsom’s […]
The Direct Democracy Book You Should Be Reading
Switzerland is where direct democracy got started, and California may be the global capital of direct democracy. But the foremost global scholar of direct democracy is a Uruguayan political scientist based in Chile. David Altman is not a name that many in California’s ballot measure industry know, but that should change. And his new book, […]
Too Few Homes, Too Many Homeless: Part One, How it Happened
Apart from the fine weather unique to California, there is little stopping the homeless crisis that grips that state from infecting the rest of America. California’s other even bigger problem, unaffordable housing, is also coming to America. All the elements are in place. The problem of increasing homelessness boils down to three fundamental policy failures. […]