World Mag quotes HJTA president Jon Coupal in their coverage of California's 10% increase in income tax withholdings. Just as predicted, the May budget "solution" was really just kicking the deficit down the road, leaving the burden eventually to fall on the shoulders of already overburdened taxpayers. CA legislature's financial negligence strikes again.
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Jon Fleischman of the Flash Report explains how the new water bond package will allow for billions of dollars to be spent on the states water crisis. While the state's water issue needs to be addressed, placing such a costly piece of legislature in front of voters, in the middle of this recession, is probably the worst way to go about it.

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This article from the urban policy magazine, City Journal examines the failure of California’s burgeoning and costly public sector to deliver on its promise of a better society. The author, William Voegeli is a visiting scholar at Claremont McKenna College’s Salvatori Center.

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Steven Greenhut, Director of the Pacific Research Institute's Journalism Center, argues that proponents of a “constitutional convention” to revamp California’s complex constitution have a hidden agenda. They want to end the two-thirds vote to raise taxes, and then end Proposition 13. This op-ed piece appeared in the Orange County Register.

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In this investigative piece, CBS13 Sacramento went undercover to report on more than 52 CALTRANS workers who attended a 4-day convention at a luxury resort in Desert Springs...in violation of the department own internal policy, and a travel ban ordered by Governor Schwarzenegger. The estimated cost to California taxpayers: more than $28,000.

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