April 19, 2013 By Katy Grimes As the behind-the-scene negotiations take place between the NBA, the owners of the Sacramento Kings and prospective buyers, there is really only one thing to remember: everything is economic. The top Kings player is paid more than $8 million. Wouldn't he li...
TaxesSacto Kings players dream of no-tax stateFriday, April 19th, 2013Sales tax holiday bill killed in leg committeeMonday, April 15th, 2013 April 15, 2013 By Katy Grimes Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez has been leading the cause aggressively for a few weeks to give California taxpayers a sales tax holiday, every tax day. Under Assembly Bill 718 by Melendez, R-Lake Elsinore, taxpayers would enjoy a one day tax holiday from... CA now suffers nation’s worst unemploymentMonday, March 25th, 2013 March 25, 2013 By John Seiler Probably for the first time since it became a state in 1850, California now suffers the nation's worst unemployment rate, at 9.8 percent in January. It's tied with Rhode Island for that number, although R.I. has been improving faster. So next month California coul... Latinos eliminate taxes — in Puerto RicoWednesday, March 13th, 2013 March 13, 2013 By John Seiler The impression seems to be that Latinos want more government, and in particular more taxes. Not the case. According to the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom, Chile actually has more economic freedom than the United States. Chile also is moving toward more freedom,... Gov. Antoinette-Brown: Let the unemployed eat cakeTuesday, February 19th, 2013 Feb. 19, 2013 By Chris Reed Over the weekend, the U-T San Diego had a story about the Texas vs. California business-climate debate. It featured an astounding claim from Gov. Jerry Brown's top economics adviser: "California provides a higher level of service than other states, said Kish Rajan,... Phil Mickelson’s net state income tax increase: 83.6%!!!!!Wednesday, January 30th, 2013Jan. 30, 2013 By Chris Reed Richard Rider, the dean of the small-government/low-tax movement in San Diego County, has come up with some stunning number-crunching on his blog: "Here's the fact that EVERYONE (including me) initially undervalued concerning [Rancho Santa Fe pro golfer Phil] Micke... There are no Henry Cuellars among CA’s Democratic polsTuesday, January 29th, 2013 Jan. 29, 2013 By Chris Reed As a libertarian believer in free minds and free markets, I've watched for decades the uneasy coalition in the Republican Party of libertarians/libertarian lites and determined social conservatives. What the former hold most dear isn't remotely what the latter does.... Non-representation should mean non-taxesTuesday, January 22nd, 2013Jan. 22, 2013 By John Seiler The American Revolution was about "taxation without representation." The colonists weren't represented in the British Parliament when their taxes were raised. So they revolted and ended the taxes. Now this: "SACRAMENTO — Many state senators will serve constit... Not just GOP but libertarians have failed messageThursday, December 27th, 2012Dec. 27, 2012 By Chris Reed There has been lots of perfectly appropriate anguish among Republicans over their party's failures in California and nationally. Losing to a president with a bad record has prompted vast soul-searching among GOP true believers. But who else is failing to get out ... The hardball tactics that got Prop. 39 tax hike passedThursday, December 20th, 2012Dec. 20, 2012 By Chris Reed In June, California voters rejected a hike on cigarette taxes to fund cancer research. The defeat of Proposition 29 strongly suggested that the general anti-tax beliefs of most of the Golden State electorate remained intact, no matter the lunatics they elected to th... |