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Modest pension reform survives in California | Coupal (opens the original)
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In what is surely this legislative session’s biggest surprise, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Assembly Bill 1383, which would have substantially weakened a modest pension reform bill backed by former Governor Jerry Brown in 2012. The veto was especially unexpected given that AB 1383 cleared both houses of the legislature by nearly unanimous votes. In 2012, California’s pension debt exceeded $200 billion, requiring the state and local governments to make up the difference out of their annual budget
Inspector General slams latest high-speed rail plan | Coupal (opens the original)
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We’re sorry for flogging a dead boondoggle, but can the news about California’s High Speed Rail project get any worse? Apparently, there is no bottom to the negative revelations about this international embarrassment. For those who have been living on Mars since 2008, we’ll bring you up to speed. What began as a $10 billion bond measure to fund a rail project that would travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco is projected to cost well over ten times the original bond amount. Critics of the proj
The two-thirds vote requirement for taxes is fair (opens the original)
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Proposition 43, appearing on this November’s statewide ballot, will close a court-created loophole in Proposition 13 that gave the green light to local governments to impose local special taxes without the two-thirds vote required by the plain language of Prop. 13. Section 4 of Prop. 13 states, in unambiguous terms, that special taxes may only be approved “by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors of such district.” Nonetheless, the courts have ruled that the two-thirds vote requirement wou
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