Poll Finds Voters Behind CA Confronting Global Warming, but are They Willing to Pay?
Public Policy Institute of California’s extensive polling on the environment turned up solid support from likely voters for the state to take a leading roll in confronting climate change. But when asked if they were willing to pay, the answers were mixed. The poll found likely voters liked the idea (by 61% to 37%) of […]
5 Ways In Which The Tax Return-for-Ballot-Access Law Is a Mistake
Why did Gov. Gavin Newsom sign the bill requiring presidential candidates to release five years of tax returns to qualify for the primary ballot? Maybe Gov. Gavin Newsom knows something about President Trump or elections that the rest of us don’t know. He has to talk to Trump at times, and maybe he sees a […]
The Return to Serfdom
I’m not a free-market fundamentalist. To me, the beauty of liberal capitalism lies in its performance: More people live well, and live longer, than ever before. Millions of working-class people have moved from poverty to become homeowners and have seen their offspring rise into the middle class or higher. Today this egalitarian capitalist progress is […]