John Seiler: Peter Shrag, one of the tax obsessives among the dominant left-commentators, comes out -- again -- for gutting much of Proposition 13: "It’s been just a third of a century since the passage of Proposition 13 in June, 1978. In that time few of its offspring have caused more damage ...
October, 2011Assault on Prop. 13 ContinuesMonday, October 31st, 2011Cap & Trade ‘Tax Farmers’ Infesting CAMonday, October 31st, 2011 OCT. 31, 2011 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Tax farming was a system used in ancient Persia, Egypt, Rome and Greece of outsourcing taxation to "tax farmers," who bid at auction for the contract rights to collect a particular tax and make money doing so. In postmodern California, Cap and Trade is a prog... California NightmareMonday, October 31st, 2011
Rural Rebellion BrewingMonday, October 31st, 2011 OCT. 31, 2011 The nearly five-hour drive from the Sacramento area to Yreka, in Siskiyou County by the Oregon border, was a reminder not just of the immense size and beauty of California, but of the vast regional and cultural differences one finds within our 37 million-population state. Sacrame... Shocking New Documentary on Calif.Saturday, October 29th, 2011John Seiler: I hadn't realized things had gotten so bad. But a shocking new documentary details just how far things have gone wrong in California. It explains everything. Here's a trailer: Oct. 29, 2011 Will Reform Forestall Pension Junk Rating?Saturday, October 29th, 2011 OCT. 29, 2011 By CHRISS STREET Jerry Brown, California’s quirky governor, has made a credible first step on the road to reforming the state’s insolvent public pension plans. By racking up $350 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, the state is the global leader for financially irrespons... Iron Man Goes To North CarolinaFriday, October 28th, 2011 Katy Grimes: California is losing out on more job creation opportunities to yet another state. Despite the $100 million in tax credits recently extended to Hollywood filmmakers by the state Legislature, the next Iron Man production will be in North Carolina. "The production is expected to cre... Govt. Motors Assaults John & KenFriday, October 28th, 2011 John Seiler: What's tyranny? It's when government runs everything. That's the case with Government Motors pulling ads from the John & Ken radio show on KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles because they favor enforcing existing federal laws restricting immigration. The excuse was that John & Ke... Jobs Killed by Unendangered SpeciesFriday, October 28th, 2011 OCT. 28, 2011 It’s been 20 years since biologist Jonathan L. Atwood authored a study declaring the California gnatcatcher a distinct subspecies. Based on Atwood’s conclusion, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1993 listed the small blue-gray songbird as “threatened,” restricting lan... Hypocrite Arnold Drives Gas-GuzzlerThursday, October 27th, 2011John Seiler: Given ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's obsession with global warming, he should be either driving in a Chevy Volt, or taking mass transit. Below is a recent YouTube showing him driving a Bentley Continental Speed GTC convertible that costs $236,100 and sports a gas-guzzling V-12 engi... |