While few Californians weathered the pandemic unscathed, taxpayers took a particularly heavy hit, getting stuck for the longterm cost of relief …
California Commentary
Working Californians hit hard by gasoline prices
A recent column in this space was headlined “Inflation, the cruelest tax.” Well, if inflation is the cruelest tax, then inflation’s impact on …
SCOTUS allows Calsavers to proceed
Anyone in California who would like to open an individual retirement account can walk into, or log into, any number of well-established financial …
California’s new death tax is a year old
Anniversaries and birthdays are usually thought of as celebratory events, but on February 16th, California marked an unhappy milestone. It …
Proposition 13: Same song, different decade
More than 42 years ago, California voters overwhelmingly enacted Proposition 13 in response to out-of-control property taxes. Even with the …
Sacramento’s pricy Capitol Annex project
It’s a safe bet many Californians would love to update their homes or businesses if they could. New windows, a new roof, perhaps new furniture and …
California is the mad scientist of bad policy
If these United States are 50 laboratories of democracy, then California is the mad scientist of far-left policies. That was evident last week as some …
Sore winners in Sacramento
We all know what a sore loser is — someone who lacks grace in defeat. But strangely, in California politics, we have sore winners. Last month, …
The fight to limit taxation continues
Regular readers of this column undoubtedly know what Proposition 13 is, but they may not know it does more than set property taxes at 1% of the home’s …
Newsom budget: The good, the bad and the ugly
The governor’s budget is a tale of the good, the bad and the ugly. We won’t see a real state budget until it emerges from the smoke-filled backroom …