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California Dems’ Wealth Tax Follows People Who Move Out of the State

August 17, 2020 7:28 amAugust 18, 2020 8:12 am

Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) made an appearance on “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Friday to discuss his Wealth Tax proposal. Bonta told Cavuto the tax “affects about 0.15% of the California population — not the top 10%, not the top 1%,...

CA Democrats Pushing First-in-the-Nation ‘Wealth Tax’ on State’s Billionaires

August 13, 2020 1:10 pmAugust 13, 2020 2:27 pm

Oakland Assemblyman Rob Bonta held a press conference Thursday announcing his legislation to tax the state’s wealthiest job creators and innovators – the 30,400 billionaires living and working in California. This first-in-the-nation net worth tax is estimated to generate $7.5...

CTA Employees Have a Pension Plan Twice as Good as the Teachers They Represent

August 12, 2020 2:26 amAugust 11, 2020 8:19 pm

This week a fascinating article on the website of the Education Intelligence Agency revealed that the California Teachers Association, one of the most powerful labor unions in the world, is itself having labor problems. Moreover, the labor problems they are encountering are because...

How Much Do California’s County Workers Make?

July 29, 2020 2:55 amJuly 28, 2020 9:18 pm

In April, with the pandemic shutdown sending California’s economy into free fall, Gavin Newsom convened a Zoom meeting with the four living California ex governors. He asked them to describe the biggest crisis they faced while in office. As reported by the New...

Recall Newsom ‘Petitions’ on Change.org are Not Valid

July 15, 2020 2:20 amMarch 17, 2022 8:19 pm

Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. There is only one petition currently circulating that, when signed by a registered voter, can be turned in to recall Governor Newsom. But you wouldn’t know that if you...

California Letting Out More Prisoners Over COVID in Second Wave of Early Release Program

June 18, 2020 11:17 amJune 18, 2020 11:23 am

California is releasing some prisoners early to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the Golden State’s jails. The jail birds will be sprung starting July 1, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The idea is to...

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...