Posts Tagged ‘ballot initiatives’Why a split-roll property tax is DOAMonday, June 11th, 2012 June 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi A proposed ballot proposition circulating for signatures in California for what is called a “spilt tax roll” is dead on arrival at the ballot box in November 2012 should it gather the necessary 807,614 signatures. (See Item 1560 -- Initiatives Cleared for ... Jerry Brown’s deficit teeter-totter gameWednesday, May 23rd, 2012 May 23, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Imagine a teeter-totter with a chubby boy on one end and a thin boy on the other. The teeter-totter can be balanced either by two chubby boys or two thin boys. It can be balanced heavy or balanced light -- either way will work. Under Proposition 58, Califo... Cancer Research Ballot BoondoggleFriday, November 18th, 2011 NOV. 17, 2011 California is only four months into the new fiscal year and already the budget has sprung a sizable leak. As predicted, the much-touted revenue infusion that Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislators relied on to close the budget gap in June has failed to produce ongoing funds. ... Thieving Signature GatherersFriday, July 29th, 2011Katy Grimes: A new political radio ad running in Sacramento this week is claiming that paid signature gatherers are often identity thieves, convicted felons and forgers. Usually when an ad campaign starts on radio, there is an active political campaign behind it. However this week when I did a... Legislators: ‘Less Power to the People’Monday, July 4th, 2011 JULY 4, 2011 By STEVEN GREENHUT California legislators -- who seem unable to come up with an honest balanced budget, who always seek tax increases, and who won't pass even modest reforms to the state's unfunded pension system or to anything else, for that matter -- want to blame the government... Good, bad and ugly initiativesThursday, December 31st, 2009Jan. 5, 2010: Any reform that will actually help fix the ongoing California government's fiscal mess (serious spending limits, pension reform, limits on union power, cutbacks in the size of state government, educational privatization, etc.) cannot possibly pass, given political realities. Anythin... |