Underground Economy Will Stifle Recovery
One area I’ve been trying to get my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to focus on is the underground economy. Let me explain. Let’s say you are a nonessential service provider. You have employees, for which you pay them competitive wages and salaries, because you want to retain them. And you withhold […]
Changing Prop. 13 will generate a tax bill that will harm small businesses, especially those owned by minorities
Many opponents of the original Proposition 13 have never given up. The same groups that fought the ballot measure more than four decades ago when 65 percent of the state’s electorate passed it have repeatedly tried to destroy the measure’s important property tax protections. When Prop. 13 was on the ballot in 1978 I opposed […]
Gov. Newsom Faces Big Decisions: Some Will Not be Easy!
California Governor Gavin Newsom and other state leaders will have a couple of critical decisions to make in the coming weeks and months which could challenge Donald Trump’s notion that the president has “absolute powers.” A coronavirus task force press briefing began with video highlights tantamount to a campaign ad patched together to justify Trump’s […]
Amid pandemic, Newsom faces scrutiny over $1B face-mask deal
California lawmakers bestowed Gov. Gavin Newsom with unusual power last month before they put their legislative session on hold and left Sacramento, giving him bipartisan approval to spend up to $1 billion “for any purpose” related to the coronavirus pandemic. It was a rare show of unanimity by a Legislature that is often riven by […]