Kevin Hanley is an Economics Instructor at Butte College. He worked as a legislative assistant and Chief Policy Consultant in the California Legislature for 24 years and served as the Mayor of Auburn.
Some city leaders in California are so ravenous for more revenue and the power to redistribute the lucre for subsidized housing boondoggles and homeless camps, that they are pushing to impose double taxation on residents and empowering snoops and snitches...
My memory says it was the last week in August. It was 2:00AM. The California Legislature would adjourn for the year on August 31. The fate of hundreds of bills hung in the balance. In the Legislative Office Building across...