Wednesday, February 17, 2016

CALIFORNIA POLITICAL NEWS & VIEWS 02/17/2016

State may face $29-43 billion budget deficit in 2020

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 08:05 pm
The Democrat Treasurer of California has noted that California has a $1.5 trillion debt. Senator John Moorlach has pointed out that in 2014-2015,while Jerry Brown was crowing about a General Fund budget surplus, the State actually had a $117 billion Operating Budget deficit—and had not had a surplus in the Operating Budget since Pete Wilson […]
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New Concept: As State Spends $$ on Roads, Bikes, Horse Trails, Your Gas Tax GOES UP—NO LIMITS

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 08:03 pm
We already have the highest gas taxes in the nation. Add to that the cap and trade pass thru tax and other environmental taxes and California is a disaster for those trying to become successful and economically stable. Now the Left has come up with a sweet deal. Just charge folks, besides everything else, by […]
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The California City Where Ideals Are Punched in the Face by Reality

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 08:01 pm
Yesterday, on my way to Walnut Creek in Contra Costa County I passed by the city of Tracy. For years, I along with others drive near Tracy on the 580 freeway on the way to the Bay Area. This is a town that time has passed by. Yet, California is dotted with many of these […]
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San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank: Minimum Wage Increase Costs Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:59 pm
The people know that an increase in the minimum wage kills jobs. Ask former restaurant workers in Seattle. Ask the former WalMart workers; go to a restaurant with computers on the tables instead of using waiters to give your order. But, the Left tells us that only the right wing thinks a higher minimum wage […]
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You pay more for gas in California, but at least state may cut your tax at the pump

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:57 pm
This is called great news—the State of California thanks to a change is the formula for a portion of the tax scheme, we will get a 2.2 cents a gallon tax decrease—though last year, thanks to cap and trade, we got a 15 cent or more tax increase and they did not even call it […]
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Media Provides Puff Piece to Create Sympathy for Social Welfare Program Disguised as Environmentalism

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:54 pm
This article is a great example of how the media uses a personal story to create sympathy for someone and then for a government program. Indeed, based on this article Alex Salguero will live for the rest of his life either on welfare or earning minimum wage. This wonderful programs is having him clean out […]
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Desert City to Become Medical Marijuana Hub

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:52 pm
Adelanto is in the middle of no where on the high desert along the route from Los Angeles to San Bernardino, using the back roads. It is a nice place to drive through—but this is a town with guts. Instead of going for high tech, solar panel construction, prisons, water storage facilities, they have decided […]
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The ‘Common Sense’ of Transit Ridership: If It Makes ‘Sense’, It Will Become More ‘Common’

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:50 pm
Government transportation is a losing. In the Los Angeles area they have spent $9 billion (not a typo) and ridership has gone down. There is not a single government transportation system in the nation that collects more than 30% of operating cost from the fare box—the rest of society must pay to keep the buses […]
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Regulate Anything—Even Private Property Vacation Rentals

By Stephen Frank on Feb 16, 2016 07:48 pm
Government is about taking control of your life, your money, your family and your job. Even some Republicans love the idea of “protecting” the consumer by taking away the right of the individual to make choices based on freedom, not government mandates. Want to buy a car, a house, work at a job, which a […]
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