A Brief Analysis of the Cal Chamber’s ‘Job Killer’ Bill Program

October 7, 2022 1:47 pmOctober 7, 2022 1:56 pm

The California Chamber of Commerce is well-known for its annual “Job Killer” designation that has been in existence for just over a quarter century. How have bills fared with the Job Killer designation during the past five gubernatorial administrations? Let’s...

CalChamber Warns About Vote Wednesday on Gut-and-Amend ‘Job Killer’ Bills

August 31, 2022 11:42 am

The California Chamber of Commerce is warning that two gut-and-amend job killer bills will be voted on today. “The California Chamber of Commerce has labeled a last-minute greenhouse gas emissions reduction proposal a job killer,” Cal Chamber reported August 25th. As...

The 2021 Job Killer List is Out and it’s Bad

March 29, 2021 6:58 amMarch 30, 2021 7:14 am

The California Chamber of Commerce recently published its annual Job Killer list of bad legislation, many of which have been highlighted by the Globe. Bills make the list if they would place California employers and the state’s economy in harm’s...

Democrat-run Assembly Isn’t Letting This Crisis Go To Waste

June 11, 2020 1:14 pm

The California economy is struggling after the COVID-related state lockdown order by Gov. Gavin Newsom in March. Newsom’s stay-at-home orders forced “non-essential” businesses to close, and led to record unemployment insurance claims. Faced with a $54.3 billion deficit following the...

Tax fighter Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13

CA Attorney General Writes Biased Title & Summary for $12.5 Billion ‘Split Roll’ Property Tax Hike

January 27, 2020 11:03 amJanuary 29, 2020 10:25 am

Anti-Proposition 13 special interests have already qualified one ballot measure for the November 2020 statewide ballot that would dismantle the 1978 ballot initiative’s property tax protections, and are currently gathering signatures to qualify a slightly more appealing sounding second version....

CA Commercial Property Owners Facing Pervasive Tax Increases if Prop. 13 Split Roll Initiative Passes

December 3, 2019 3:08 pm

‘California’s assessable property is now worth $6.5 trillion with just last year’s increase resulting in $75 billion in revenue.’ Despite California’s record budget surplus of $7 billion in reserves, the Proposition 13 “split roll” property tax ballot initiative could...

Rent Control Passes in the CA Legislature

September 11, 2019 9:13 pmSeptember 12, 2019 9:00 am

California just passed the strongest rent control package in the United States. While rent control advocates claim, “the rent is too damn high — so we’re damn sure doing something about it,” AB 1482 will not have the desired changes...