"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The budget proposes to offload state responsibilities like public safety and health services onto local governments, funding them for five years with money raised if voters approve the extension of tax hikes in June. This would include eliminating the California…
During Governor Brown’s press conference Monday, he was asked what would happen if voters reject the continuation of taxes set to expire this year. He replied, take all the budget cuts we’re making now and multiply by 2. Ouch. The…
From an in-depth Reuters article on California’s dismal financial situation. California faces an identity crisis. If the world’s eighth largest economy has any chance of restoring its former glory, it will have to reverse course drastically and quickly, becoming less…
CalWatchDog, who mostly focuses on California budget and economic issues, ponders why those hosting inagural parties for incoming governor Jerry Brown are calling him “the people’s governor” as such language has a strong leftist, almost Marxist tinge to it. I’m…
Faced with the two charging rhinos of the California budget crisis, these rhinos being higher taxes and fewer services, governor-elect Jerry Brown apparently will choose to adroitly sidestep them, allowing them to go charging into the laps of you, the…