Each fall, the Legislature adjourns so lawmakers can return home and tell their constituents what a marvelous job they are doing. Many, who are focused on reelection or higher office, will have to spin a really good yarn to convince voters that their performance merits more time in Sacramento.  Read more >>

According to Ronald Reagan, the nine most terrifying words in the English language were, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." If anything, they are even more terrifying today.

Everywhere we turn, government is intruding into our lives and homes. Don't want to buy health insurance? Go to jail, or so mandates Speaker Pelosi's comprehensive healthcare "reform" bill.  Read more >>

When the word "Paris" is associated with taxpayer outrage, it is usually due to junketing politicians jetting off to the France at public expense. But it was similarly sounding Perris, California, a Riverside County community of 50,000, which became the center of taxpayer outrage last week when voters rejected an illegal property tax.  Read more >>

The reported instances of waste, fraud and abuse of our taxpayer dollars are so common now, it takes a lot to shock us. And regular readers of this column know that a pet peeve of those of us at HJTA is when government spends taxpayer dollars to either directly engage in political advocacy or to spend money on a bloated public relations budget.  Read more >>