"Corporations saw their income rise by 400% from 2001 to 2008. The average growth in wages and income for everyone else in the state was about 25%. That's unequal and unjust. "The corporations have our money, and it's time we took it back" Tax Reform That Benefits The Rich Isn't Tax Reform, by Robert Cruickshank, [...]
Tag: California
Senator Hancock and I agree
"Since 1978, California has spent about $4 billion dollars on death penalty costs and has executed 13 people, according to a new study. That's $308 million per condemned inmate. By 2030, when the population of San Quentin's death row is projected to reach 1,000, the tab for maintaining the death penalty will reach $9 billion. [...]
A Revenue Utopia
"Gov. Jerry Brown hinted Thursday that if the budget talks with Republicans break down, the initiative fight that would follow would not be limited to Brown's plans to raise sales, vehicle and income taxes. He said he expects labor groups to pursue changes to Proposition 13, tweaking the current caps on commercial property taxes, if [...]
As if it isn’t embrassing enough being a California girl
Skirmish breaks out on Assembly floor during budget debate, by Shane Goldmacher, LA Times, June 15, 2011 Sigh. It wasn't even about the budget. It was about... um, something else.
Carmageddon is imminent!
So, now that I have your attention: Please don't go anywhere near the 101/405 interchange from noon July 15 through noon July 18. Please cross-post like mad, thanks; it's not like CalTrans is going to get the word out themselves. "Warning motorists of potentially massive delays, transportation officials last week announced plans to shut down [...]
Fiscal bedlam and the way we live now
"Senate Democrats flashed a potential trump card in the state budget debate Friday by passing a bill that would allow local authorities to raise taxes on just about anything after Republicans defeated an extension of the statewide sales and vehicle taxes Gov. Jerry Brown says he needs to fill the budget gap. "While many business [...]
And I thought redistricting was dullsville
"In its Santa Ana meeting, the Redistricting Commission was asked by many people to keep Garden Grove with Westminster and separate both from Santa Ana, in part to allow the Vietnamese community to develop its future political influence. To its credit, the CRC did so. But it did it in almost the weirdest way possible. [...]
I’m about to say something good about San Diego
And you are there. "The (SD city) council voted 7-1 to drum up an additional $9 million that they'll use to prevent any cuts to parks and libraries and end the city's 17-month-old brownout policy, which calls for the idling of up to eight fire engines daily to save money on overtime. The money was [...]
The sign I put up today: 05/06/2011
And we'll see how long it lasts. Hopefully forever.
Jerry Brown on the job
"Gov. Jerry Brown has put a halt to plans for a $356-million construction project that would have created a new home at San Quentin prison for California's condemned inmates. ~snip~ "The new housing unit would have provided room for 1,152 inmates, but California currently has fewer than 700 inmates awaiting execution, according to the governor's [...]