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New State Controlled Pension System – Will Taxpayers Have to Bail It Out?
Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1234 to establish a state supervised retirement fund called Secure Choice for private workers. One wonders if at some future time this action will be remembered much like Gov. Gray Davis’s signature on SB 400 of 1999, which put taxpayers on edge by driving public pensions into deep debt. […]
Black Lives Matter Protest Turns Violent in San Diego
A Black Lives Matter protest turned violent on Thursday night in El Cajon, near San Diego, as demonstrators attacked cars and at least one motorcycle while protesting the death of 38-year-old Ugandan refugee Alfred Olango earlier this week. It was the second straight night of violence at the protest, after a mob chased and beat […]
California Transportation System Improves – But Still Ranked Low By New Study
SACRAMENTO – Despite its well-documented inefficiencies and travails, California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has managed to improve the state’s system of roads, bridges and freeways incrementally in recent years, according to a newly released annual survey of state highway systems by the free-market-oriented Reason Foundation. Reason’s 22nd Annual Highway Report ranked California 42nd. While this […]
Nov. Election Sees More than $34 Billion in Local Borrowing and Local Tax Increases
New local taxes and new local borrowing are a regular phenomenon in California elections, but this year our government union-controlled politicians have outdone themselves. Let’s compare: November 2014 – $11 billion in new borrowing proposed via 118 local bond measures, 81 percent passed. Of the 117 local proposals for new taxes, 68 percent passed. June 2016 – $6.2 […]
Proposition 13 Is Safe — For Another Few Weeks
The Legislature is in adjournment, and with lawmakers at home campaigning for re-election, they are unable to engage in their favorite pastime of undermining Proposition 13 and its protections for California taxpayers. However, this time out is only a brief respite from the Sacramento politicians’ inexorable pursuit of taxpayers’ wallets, the ferocity of which matches […]
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Trumped-up trickle-down
In the post-debate spinning, few noted Hillary Clinton’s pride in coining “Trumped-up trickle-down” economics to accuse Donald Trump of policy malfeasance. However, it is important, because every time anyone has ever used the term “trickle-down” economics (or its rhetorical cousins, “tax cuts for the rich,” “voodoo economics,” etc.) it has been a trumped-up, intentional […]
“Tim Kaine Most Liberal VP Nominee in Our Lifetime” – ACU ratings
The American Conservative Union has been conducting the Ratings of Congress for five decades. Consequently, its archives have lifetime ratings for 18 Vice-presidential nominees for half a century. Conservatives will be pleased to know that Mike Pence is the most conservative nominee the country has seen in 50 years (99% alignment with ACU). Americans will […]
Don’t bet the house against the law of demand
2016’s edition of Labor Day followed a well-established tradition — unions claiming credit for every worker gain. Among their most common assertions, often incorporated in attributing negative wage trends to eroding union power, was that unions raise all workers’ wages. Unfortunately, unions retard rather than raise others’ real earning power. Unions leverage special government-granted powers […]
Publisher’s Corner
Just Say “No” to the California Tax Hike Industry
Successful Californians must pay over 50% of their income at the top marginal rates in state and federal income taxes. That’s right – Obama’s tax hike created a 39% top Federal income tax bracket, and combined with California’s top of the nation 13% plus, our state’s most successful citizens aren’t working for themselves anymore, they […]
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California Political Review breaks 21,000 Facebook fans!!
The editors at California Political Review are grateful for our loyal readers – and readership is breaking record levels right now! CPR posts links of its articles from this website to its Facebook page, and that page is going through the roof with activity! Earlier this week we crossed over 21,000 fans at www.facebook.com/CAPoliticalReview! Our […]
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California approves gender-neutral bathrooms
As reported by CBS News: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown waded further into the national debate over transgender rights Thursday as he signed a bill requiring that all single-stall toilets in California be designated as gender neutral. The move same just days after the governor gave the go-ahead to a measure limiting travel to North Carolina […]
California ballot has record number of local revenue measures
As reported by Reuters: A record number of local tax and bond measures will fill the California ballot this November, including over $32 billion of proposed funding for education, infrastructure and homeless services. Some 650 local measures will go before voters, including 427 revenue measures. That is considerably more than the number proposed during any […]
Kamala Harris says lower-income kids should go to college for free
As reported by the Sacramento Bee: Kamala Harris, in the final weeks of her U.S. Senate campaign against fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez, released a higher education plan Tuesday calling for making public colleges and universities free for students whose families earn less than $140,000 a year. She also wants to allow borrowers to discharge student […]
California lawmakers collect thousands on top of salary while absent
Originally published by the San Jose Mercury News: SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In addition to their six-figure salaries and benefits, California’s 120 lawmakers are compensated for their cost of living and meals when they leave home and travel to Sacramento to write and pass bills. Unlike in many other states, however, California lawmakers have over time crafted […]
Gov. Brown signs legislation regulating cow, landfill emissions
As reported by the Orange County Register: SACRAMENTO – Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that regulates for the first time greenhouse-gas emissions tied to dairy cows and landfills, an escalation of California’s efforts to fight climate change beyond carbon-based gases to include methane and other pollutants. The move by the Democratic governor targets […]
