Budget and FinanceRT Brain Trust Rides AgainFriday, January 6th, 2012 Katy Grimes: The brain trust at Sacramento Regional Transit have bested themselves - they are now going to charge transit users for parking at some of Sacramento's light rail stations. This is such a brilliant plan to send light rail users back to their cars, I wondered if a deep cover mole for Mich... CA: Best State Billionaires Can BuyThursday, January 5th, 2012Chriss Street: Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, has come out with a powerful call to arms in opposition to a half dozen ballot initiatives funded by billionaire California crony capitalists. The tax increases often are designed to feather their own pocketbooks. ... The More Taxes the Merrier!Friday, December 16th, 2011 John Seiler: It must be the season. I'm in a festive mood. I want to put as many tax increases as possible before voters next November. Tax the rich, tax the middle class, tax the poor, tax smokers, tax drinkers, tax eaters, tax lovers -- tax everybody. That way, as Dan Walters predicted, t... What Occupy Mvt. Should KnowFriday, December 16th, 2011 John Seiler: Despite its excesses, the Occupy movement is an understandable response to the "Economic Cooling" since the Great Recession struck now more than four years ago. (As is the Tea Party.) I have friends still living in their car. Here's what the Occupiers basically believe: No. 1. Ri... Elmer Fudd Translates Brown LetterThursday, December 15th, 2011 John Seiler: Gov. Jerry Brown sometimes can be difficult to understand. Plumping for his tax increase, he recently wrote, "An Open Letter to the People of California." It makes more sense when translated, using the Dialectizer, into the lingo of Elmer Fudd, whom the governor actually resembles... Jerry Brown’s idea of an ‘honest’ budgetWednesday, December 14th, 2011Steven Greenhut: In his open letter to Californians, Gov. Jerry Brown claimed, "The Republicans refused to provide the four votes needed to put this measure on the ballot. … Democrats went ahead and enacted massive cuts and the first honest, on-time budget in a decade." That's quite a claim -- one... Jerry Brown’s latest fake cutsMonday, December 12th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Gov. Jerry Brown is a master of offering cost-cutting reforms that only cut the equivalent of pennies out of the budget. It's good PR -- burnishing his image as a master of frugality. Meanwhile, the governor ignores the enormous costs and waste found within the government. He offers... Walters Rebuts Brown’s Tax PleaMonday, December 5th, 2011Steven Greenhut: Wise words from Sen. Mimi Walters, R-Laguna Hills: “Governor Brown’s tax proposal attempts to solve California’s financial crisis by focusing on the wrong issues. Instead of increasing the tax base by creating more jobs, the Governor’s approach will only serve to drive mo... |