Spending Limits

As a Spending Limit, Prop. 1A Does Not Cut It

Jon Coupal — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:22:34 -0700

Speaking before a meeting of over a thousand members of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association in 1992, former President Ronald Reagan told the audience, "We tax reformers bear our scars proudly." The recipient of the Howard Jarvis Lifetime Tax Fighter award was referring to his own effort to control spending, Proposition 1, which was rejected by voters in 1973. Read more >>

PROP. 1A: INTERVIEW WITH ECONOMIST BEN ZYCHER WHO SAYS “THE MEASURE DOES NOT DELIVER ON A PROMISE OF A REAL SPENDING LIMIT”

sgvirtzman — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:11:30 -0700

Ben Zycher, a senior fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, thoroughly reviewed the text of Proposition 1A before the voters this May, and was underwhelmed by alleged spending reforms, and critical of tax increases in the proposal.

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The Legislature Needs a Spending Limit Nanny

gforster — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:57:04 -0700

Here's a riddle. What is 150 years old, but has less self control than a toddler?

That's right, it's the California Legislature, whose profligate spending has put our state almost $20 billion in the red. Over and over again it has proven Ronald Reagan's maxim that "government is like an infant -- an insatiable appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." Read more >>