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From the desk of…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
From the desk of…Bonta’s cave on Paramount-Warner deal fits California’s history of corporate surrender (opens the original)
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The deal that California Attorney General Rob Bonta made this 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 change their ways and then caving in. The corporation often makes some minor concessions that allow the officials to save face. In this case, Bonta and
From the desk of…Gavin Newsom paddles to the political right with 3 notable vetoes (opens the original)
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Nearly a half-century ago, while addressing a group of high school students, Jerry Brown enunciated his canoe theory of governance. “The way you have to approach the political process is something like piloting a canoe,” Brown said in 1979, referring to his often abrupt changes of policy. “If you stand up on one side you’ll fall in. If you stand up on the other side you’ll fall in. But if you paddle a little bit on the left side, then paddle a little bit on the right side, you keep going right d
From the desk of…Taxing California’s rich just got more complicated. Prop 40’s fate is still uncertain (opens the original)
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Proposition 40, which would impose a 5% tax on the wealth of California’s billionaires, is arguably the most important measure placed before voters in this century. It is also probably the most confounding. While it’s sponsored by a healthcare union, it’s opposed by several other major unions, who are in an odd bedfellows alliance with the billionaires it targets. Meanwhile, the leader of the sponsoring union faces allegations of personal misconduct. And even if Prop. 40 passes, two other measur
From the desk of…Newsom and legislators withhold school funds while state blows money on pork and luxury travel (opens the original)
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The California Teachers Association sued the state this week, asking a court to force the payment of $3.9 billion in public school support that Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature withheld in the budget they enacted in June. The money is required under a constitutional mandate, Proposition 98, that voters passed in 1988. The funds would have to be released eventually, but Newsom and legislators held them back as one of several “solutions” to close a multibillion-dollar deficit. “We are filing
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