(Our Annual Update on How to Translate Your Property Tax Bill) For many the real scare this time of year is not the monsters at our doors on …
California Commentary
‘Cost of Service’ Principles Protect Ratepayers
Governor Brown's Attack on Prop 218 Is a Threat to the Middle Class Governor Brown has foolishly decided to poke a hornets’ nest with his signing …
Citizens Exhausted By Hypocrisy
Exhaust is what was emanating from the idling 3 ton SUV bearing state license plates sitting at the curb outside the Griffith Observatory. The parked …
It’s Never Enough
Chicago, Carl Sandburg’s “City of the big shoulders,” is about to find out just how heavy a tax burden homeowners are able to bear. Mayor Rahm Emanuel …
Commuters, Travelers and Junketers
According to press reports, Fresno Assemblyman Henry T. Perea is off to Spain to study high-speed rail while accompanied by business and labor …
Beware the Temporary Tax
A coalition of government employee unions has filed an initiative that would extend the temporary income tax hikes that were contained in Proposition …
Legislative Session Ends With Taxpayers Tired But Victorious
It’s been a long year in the Capitol for those of us who advocate against higher taxes, crushing regulations and wasteful government spending. The …
Is California a Low Property Tax State?
During Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first campaign for governor, one of his biggest backers, super wealthy Warren Buffet, famously said his property taxes …
Fool Me Once . . .
[As seen in the Sacramento Bee.] Although the media is paying a lot of attention to the possibility of tax hikes for transportation, the consensus …
Steyer, Steyer, Pants on Feyer
A decade ago, former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg authored a book titled 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. If Goldberg were writing …