Many city attorneys in California know that the past and present collection of their city's utility tax on cell phone bills is illegal, absent voter approval. But they, and the politicians they represent, are trying to bluff their way out of holding an election.  Read more >>

Proposition 93 on the February ballot is a fraud designed to allow all current members of the Assembly to serve an additional six years and those in the Senate to remain for an additional four years.  Read more >>

As taxpayers are bombarded daily with bad budget news, they are fastening their seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Sacramento admits to a $14 billion deficit over the next 18 months and even this may turn out to be a conservative estimate. And right on cue, the tax and spend lobby has increased the pitch of its whining for higher taxes.  Read more >>

HJTA members are accustomed to uninformed members of the media, entrenched bureaucrats and liberal politicians uttering falsehoods about Prop 13. But we are surprised when fair-minded pundits like Dan Walters take a sip of the KoolAid.  Read more >>