HeyJaredDan Walters
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Walters: Hilton blames Democrats. Becerra blames Trump. Little was learned in governor’s race debate (opens the original)
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This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The first and probably only face-to-face debate between the two candidates for California governor Wednesday night established its pattern right off the bat. The two CNN anchors who conducted the event in Burbank, Jake Tapper and Dana Bush, would raise one of the state’s most pressing issues and seek responses from Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton. Hilton would blame decades of Democratic po
California’s hallmark economic sectors are confronting threats to their survival (opens the original)
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California’s economy is not only one of the world’s largest at more than $4 trillion but one of its most diverse. No single industry dominates. Rather, there are three hallmarks with global reach — film and TV production, technology and large-scale agriculture — and a variety of less famous sectors. In terms of sheer financial and employment importance, healthcare is California’s biggest economic activity at something over $500 billion a year, most of which comes from federal and state governmen
Would closing California’s corporate tax loopholes actually generate new revenue? (opens the original)
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California unions whose members depend on the state budget for their salaries celebrated last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation aimed at plugging corporate tax loopholes. “Giant, highly profitable, global corporations often pay less in California taxes than a social worker or a teacher,” Arnulfo De La Cruz, president of the Service Employees International Union, said in a statement. “That makes no sense at all, and we’re going to change that. Accountability for corporate tax credits
Dan Walters: Rob Bonta’s Cave on Paramount-Warner Deal Fits California’s History of Corporate Surrender (opens the original)
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[Noozhawk’s note: We republish news articles and commentaries from CalMatters on state and local policy issues that affect Santa Barbara County readers.] The deal that state Attorney General Rob Bonta made last week to allow the $111 billion merger of entertainment media powerhouses Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery has a familiar ring. It’s the latest episode of California officials confronting big corporate interests over some issue, loudly promising to make business executives cha
Walters: Tilting California voters toward raising local taxes often involves tricks, manipulation (opens the original)
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California’s Nov. 3 ballot contains 14 statewide ballot measures and five of them pertain to taxes, including the much-debated Proposition 40, which would tax the wealth of the state’s billionaires. Meanwhile, local ballots are also heavily loaded with measures that would either raise taxes to benefit school districts or local governments or authorize the issuance of bonds that require new taxes to repay. The California Taxpayers Association has counted 273 such measures that, if all passed, wou
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