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Brown's Budget Plan Keeps His Friends Happy

"Not to mention that a 7-year increase is a very long time and comes with zero governmental reforms of any kind that are needed in order to gain public trust and support for any tax increases."

by Creed 13 hours ago   Respond   Read article

Brown's Budget Plan Keeps His Friends Happy

"A tax increase may be the quick fix, BUT it may increase the deficit rather than decrease the deficit. CA continues to experience a net out migration of businesses and citizens. Will a tax increase help attract businesses into CA and help us retain the ones still here, OR will it provide fuel to continue the exodus, resulting in less paying taxes and thus increase the unemployment and the deficit? "

by PTSSTAFFING 17 hours ago   Respond   Read article

NEW: Will Calif. end double taxation of businesses?

"One of the greatest policy values of such an incentive is that, unlike many other tax benefits, a company has to actually invest and create jobs in order to get this tax benifit. Its a no-brainer on policy grounds and it gets us in uniform and on the bench, with a little emore effort we can actually be on the field to compete."

by Avg. Joe 17 hours ago   Respond   Read article

Lawmakers might end ADA lawsuit binge

"It seems fair that a business – at least a small business that is a first-time offender – should be given an opportunity to comply before being subject to a $4,000 hit. But there is nothing close to such a "safe harbor" statute here, and attempts to pass one have been shot down repeatedly by Democrats.- - Senator Feinstein has been putting some pressure on state legislators to clean this mess up- no one wants to limit access to facilities, its a matter of ending legalized extortion. Thank you Senator Feinstein. "

by BigTuna 18 hours ago   Respond   Read article

Viewpoints: Cap and trade has lessons for California

"California cap and trade is massively larger and more expensive than RGGI which is electric generation only. Our program also includes all natural gas and transportation fuel emissions for every manufacturer and consumer. Capping and selling permits for the entire energy economy of California is a much more expensive and dangerous proposition than only raising funds for energy efficiency programs run by electric utilities regulated by the CPUC. By the way, we already do that in California and have been for decades."

by gdicaro 18 days ago   Respond   Read article