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Reparations, Bullet Train, 64% State Spending Increase: California’s Democrats Choose Power Over the People

December 26, 2023 2:47 pmDecember 28, 2023 4:44 am

California’s Democrat super-majority Legislature and governor are moving full-steam ahead with reparations for black descendants of slaves, high speed rail, and have increased spending a staggering 64% since Gavin Newsom was elected in 2019. But not on anything to make...

Woke California Legislature Getting Even More Ridiculous

November 26, 2023 8:57 amNovember 27, 2023 6:21 pm

The Globe just reported Friday on California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas’ (D-Hollister) orchestrated a shakeup of the leadership lineup in the California Assembly, following the departure of former Speaker Anthony Rendon. Rivas named Majority Leader Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) as...

LA Taxpayers Association Coalition Announces Launch of the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act

September 7, 2023 7:00 amSeptember 8, 2023 9:26 am

The Los Angeles Taxpayers Association works on state and local levels in California to promote sound tax and regulatory policy. President Aidan Chao recently put together an extensive coalition in support of the Taxpayer Protection Act initiative. According to Chao,...

Warning: Attacking Proposition 13 is Political Suicide

September 1, 2023 11:53 amSeptember 1, 2023 11:55 am

In politics, some battles can make or break a career. California’s Proposition 13, a steadfast symbol of taxpayer protection since 1978, is one such battleground. Any elected official who attacks this proposition directly is akin to placing themselves in the...

Will Taxpayers be Robbed (Again) in 2022?

May 25, 2022 2:23 amMay 24, 2022 4:08 pm

And “historic” is the right word for California’s staggering tax windfall. Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced he expects the state to be sitting on a budget surplus of nearly $100 billion this year. That spare mountain of money equals the...

Gov. Newsom Transforms Taxpayer Protection into Welfare

May 14, 2021 2:30 pmMay 14, 2021 2:42 pm

California actually has a government spending limit, hard as that may be to believe, and Gavin Newsom is making a mockery of it, just as his predecessor did. In 1979, a year after signing off on the revolutionary Proposition 13,...

Government Unions, Tech Billionaires and California Ballot Propositions

December 16, 2020 2:12 amDecember 16, 2020 8:35 am

Californians voted on twelve state ballot propositions on November 3. On nine of these propositions, California’s government and private sector unions spent significant amounts of money, over a million in five cases, and over ten million in two cases. But of these...