This article in the OC Register highlights the recent business report on the effect of state regulations on California businesses. The report found that business regulations cost an average of $134,122 per small California business, $13,801 per household and $4,685 per resident each year. And the legislature wonders why the state economy is failing and why businesses are leaving California by the dozens...

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Senate leader Don Perata has a plan to provide all uninsured working Californians with health insurance at an estimated cost of $5 billion to $7 billion without a tax increase. Okay.

The Perata plan would force businesses that do not provide health insurance and their employees, through a payroll deduction, to pay into a state agency that would attempt to negotiate for "affordable" coverage. When paying taxes, workers would have to show proof of medical insurance.

This is just plain wrong on so many levels -- let me count the ways.  Read more >>