TaxesI Can’t Afford a Tax IncreaseWednesday, March 30th, 2011 John Seiler: I usually make coffee at home. But this morning, I got a Starbucks. Fishing around in my wallet for the money, I noticed I only had a couple of dollars left. Yet I recently patronized the cash machine. The culprit: soaring gas prices that now cost me $70 to fill up my flivver at t... Steve Lopez Misleads on Tax HikeWednesday, March 23rd, 2011 John Seiler: Today L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez makes it seem as if, as his headline puts it, "Saving the state would cost $260" each per year. Never mind that saving $100,000 pensions from cuts isn't exactly "saving the state." He also writes that the cost would be "about $22.00 a mont... Jobs FirstFriday, March 18th, 2011 John Seiler: Anti-tax folks seem to have a hard time pushing their message. Everything gets wrapped up in a "deal," real or imagined, with Gov. Jerry Brown to put a vote on his $12 billion tax increase before voters in June. It supposedly would close the $25 billion budget deficit. Let me help... Your Taxes Already Up $700Thursday, March 10th, 2011 John Seiler: Jerry Brown's $12 billion tax increase, which he wants on a June ballot, comes to about $1,000 a year per family. Reuters just reported that the average American family will pay $700 more a year in gas costs, due to the skyrocketing price at the pump: The average U.S. household w... A Tradeoff For Tax Increase Vote?Friday, March 4th, 2011Katy Grimes: With the budget conference committee's passage of Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan yesterday, Assembly Speaker John Perez announced that he wants to bring the budget to the floor for a vote next week. Will this be a drill, or the real deal? There is mostly silence coming out of the ... Taxes Don’t Fix ObesityFriday, February 18th, 2011Katy Grimes: Despite the stated goal, Assemblyman Bill Monning's proposed soda tax is just another money grab. Just like the recently announced soda-tax approved by Sacramento's City Council, Monning claims that his goal is to fight obesity. Monning, a Democrat from Carmel introduced AB 669 o... Facebook Expanding – ElsewhereFriday, November 12th, 2010Katy Grimes: The wildly popular social networking website Facebook is expanding, but not in California. With more than 500 million members, Facebook is adding a second data center, costing $450 million, but this time it is in North Carolina. The last data center built by Facebook at $188 million, i... Traitorous tax increasers loseTuesday, November 2nd, 2010 John Seiler: One good result from the election. Traitorous tax increasers Abel Maldonado and Mike Villines lost their statewide races, respectively for lieutenant governor and insurance commissioner. Both Republicans betrayed the taxpayers they had pledged to protect when they signed a pact w... L.A. Times Exhales Prop. 19Sunday, October 31st, 2010 John Seiler: I thought the L.A. Times was supposed to be "progressive" and "liberal"? Actually, they're an establishment, elitist, government-loving paper. As shown by their editorial opposing Prop. 19, which would legalize marijuana in California. It's the same position taken by the Chamber o... Meg: Stop lying about Jerry and taxesTuesday, September 14th, 2010John Seiler: Meg Whitman continues running commercials based on disproved assertions about Jerry Brown and taxes. It's especially grating that she is using a Bill Clinton quote attacking Jerry from the 1992 presidential campaign. First, Clinton is a notorious liar. That's why he's called Slick... |