Environmentalists Seek a Full Repeal of Proposition 13

California businesses operate under some of the strictest clean air standards in the world, and these regulated businesses have largely continued their operations here thanks to Proposition 13 – the reform measure that provides certainty and affordability in property taxes. Unfortunately, environmentalists recently announced support for a November ballot measure that would repeal property tax […]

Backers of ‘False Claims Act’ Bill Make False Claims of Their Own

The sponsors of AB 2570 – a flawed proposal to deputize profit-seeking attorneys to engage in tax collection – continue to claim that California has a $20 billion “tax gap,” despite being alerted that the that number has no basis in fact. The “tax gap” is the estimated difference between what taxpayers owe under the […]

California Businesses Already Pay Their Fair Share

With news of California companies moving to states where taxes and other operating costs are lower, it’s difficult to believe that some groups want to hit in-state employers with another tax increase. But that is precisely the pitch made by special-interest groups trying to convince voters that California’s business taxes are too low. Taxes must […]

Lawmakers Offer 269 Billion New Reasons for Taxpayers to Leave California

Most of California’s 39.5 million residents are here because they or their relatives decided at some point to pack up their belongings and head west, leaving behind homes, families and friends for the hope and opportunity that beckoned from the Golden State. Things have changed. Today, domestic immigration statistics and forecasts show that people are […]

Busting the Myth That Proposition 13 Eviscerated Local Revenue

The year 1978 might seem almost like ancient history – a distant memory for most voters, and unimaginable for a growing class of lawmakers who were not yet born then. With the passage of time, folklore prevails and myths sometimes come to overshadow facts. It is in this light that opponents of Proposition 13 have […]