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NEWS: Drought or no drought: Jerry Brown sets permanent water conservation rules for Californians
Last Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown signed two bills into law that will require cities and water districts across the state to set permanent water …
OPINION: Battle over gas-tax hike intensifies
The gas tax repeal effort is already impacting election races around the state, including notably Senator Josh Newman, who cast the deciding vote for …
OPINION: California mandates its way to an even worse housing market
It's no secret that buying a house in California is expensive; the median home price in California is double the national average. California has …
OPINION: The Tragedy of America’s Public Pension Tsunami
Over the last 60 years union membership for private sector employees dropped from 33% to 12%. However, 74% of public sector employees belong to unions …
NEWS: Here Are the Gov’t Programs Raising Gas Prices Sky High in Some Places
California has some of the highest gas prices in the nation, with gas taxes that are calculated as a percentage of the whole price of a gallon of …
NEWS: 30 percent of California tax agency managers have a relative on staff
In a November audit, the California State Personnel Board found that more than 800 of the 4,200 employees at the California Department of Tax and Fee …
OPINION: Walters: California’s ticking time bomb
As a result of California's state budget being so reliant on the personal income taxes of just one percent of taxpayers, which amounts to about …
OPINION: Chicago Fed’s answer for Illinois pension crisis is a statewide property tax!
Illinois is in the midst of a pension crisis and struggling to find a way out. In order to combat this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago proposed …
OPINION: California Keeps Obliterating Its Tax Base
Californians are leaving the state in scores, in search of more tax-friendly states that welcome their business and won't tax them out of their homes. …