All Posts Tagged With: "California"
Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy against the American Taxpayer
Politics has one feature that sets it apart from all sorts of voluntary action: It employs coercion. Politicians can raid the wallets of taxpayers, forcing them to part with money they would rather spend, donate, or invest according to their own desires. Much of the money thus confiscated is then spent to succor special-interest groups [...]
22Jun2011 | George C. Leef | 5 comments | ContinuedTaking On Unions
In my last column I noted that unions seem to be losing respect among the public. It now appears that that loss of respect is translating into an increased willingness by voters, and even some politicians, to challenge unions, especially those that represent government employees. Rahm Emanuel famously opined that “You never let a serious [...]
22Oct2010 | Charles W. Baird | 3 comments | ContinuedCalifornia Medical Pot Shops Booming
From the Washington Times: SEBASTOPOL, Calif. | The medical marijuana dispensary in this California wine country town is in a former auto dealership and has more registered patients than the town has residents. Los Angeles has more pot shops than Starbucks or schools.The surge in medical marijuana in California has left many communities scrambling to [...]
6Nov2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedLand-Use Controllers Never Quit
I have more than a small suspicion that those who promote urbanization will do so no matter what it does for the climate. The answer for them is always the same: more urbanization. Don’t worry about the exact question.
21May2009 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedCalifornia Dreaming
Though it’s easy to affirm the idea that attempting to spend or tax one’s way out of economic woes is bogus, it’s even easier when you see proof positive, like the current debacle in California. The Wall Street Journal says this: The Golden State — which a decade ago was the booming technology capital of [...]
18Feb2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | ContinuedCourt Holds California’s Homeschoolers in Suspense
Anyone interested in the nearly criminal mismanagement of the nation’s government-run schools need only do research on the acronym LAUSD. In March 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraiogosa gave a speech blasting the LAUSD—Los Angeles Unified School District—for its “culture of complacency” and described the dropout problem in the district as “the new civil rights [...]
1May2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedProtecting Property in a Post-Kelo World
Two years ago, when I began writing a book,
peoples eyes would glaze over when I told them
the subject was eminent domain, the power of
the government to take property by force on just
compensation to the owner. Rarely could I mention the
subject without having to explain it in detail, and
incredulity was a typical response to the realization that
government now takes property for private uses rather
than for the public uses allowed by the
Constitution.
Taxing for Therapy
The Marxian credo, “From each according to his
abilities, to each according to his needs,” is the
moral foundation of the progressive tax policies
of modern capitalist societies. The psychiatric credo,
“From each producer according to his income, to each
psychiatric parasite according to his cunning,” amplifies
that creed and garbs it in the mantle of therapy.
How Unions Are Bankrupting California
If you asked any southern Californian about the biggest union-related news story in recent years, the likely answer would be this year’s four-month-long labor dispute between cashiers (and other workers) and three of the region’s largest supermarket chains. The strike/lockout was widely covered for some obvious reasons. It disrupted most people’s lives. Store hours at [...]
1Sep2004 | Steven Greenhut | 7 comments | ContinuedCalifornia’s Apprenticeship Scam
In 1937 Congress and President Roosevelt enacted the National Apprenticeship Act (NAA), which, sadly, is still in effect. It enables “the [U.S.] Department of Labor to formulate and promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to safeguard the welfare of apprentices and to cooperate with the states in the promotion of such standards.” Like most [...]
1Dec2003 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedStrangling the Golden State’s Golden Goose
The older industrial park just south of downtown Los Angeles wasn’t the typical spot for a California Chamber of Commerce press conference. There were no ribbons to cut, only a handful of moving boxes decorated with various bill numbers—SB 888, AB 274, SB 515. Instead of hand-shaking and excitement about a newly opened business, a [...]
1Oct2003 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedTitle IX and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Larry Schweikart teaches history at the University of Dayton. A recent debate over obesity featured James Glassman, an American Enterprise Institute resident fellow, defending the fast-food industry and Shannon Brownlee, a New America Foundation senior fellow, complaining “not only is your local, state and federal government not doing anything about this disease—anything credible about it—but [...]
1Oct2003 | Larry Schweikart | 5 comments | ContinuedDeregulation Caused the Great Blackout of 2003?
As I sat in New York during the blackout, I wondered who would succeed at producing the first predictable polemics blaming “deregulation.” Every crisis unsurprisingly is used to further the agendas of anyone remotely concerned. Every interest group claimed that had its agenda been accepted the crisis could have been avoided. The Northeast power outage [...]
1Oct2003 | RICHARD L. GORDON | 0 comments | ContinuedProject Labor Agreements: Economic Illiteracy 101
Perhaps it’s the result of a dumbing-down of the American citizenry, but these days economic debates are waged with the most illogical premises. For instance, in recent weeks news stories have discussed plans by some California cities to use tax dollars to build power plants, rather than to keep buying power from the quasi-private utility [...]
1Jun2003 | Steven Greenhut | 1 comment | ContinuedCalifornia’s War on Homeschoolers
Steven Greenhut is a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California. I’m routinely astounded by the degree to which Americans will be outraged by government abuses that take place in far-off lands, while remaining uninterested in similar abuses right here in their very midst. My newspaper, the Orange [...]
1Feb2003 | Steven Greenhut | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Blight of Eminent Domain
My sister-in-law came back from a recent trip to Poland outraged at how that former communist country treats its citizens. An acquaintance of hers owns a beautiful home in the Polish countryside and is now involved in an ugly court battle because a government official was so impressed with the property that he began the [...]
1Sep2002 | Steven Greenhut | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Sustainable–and Young–Hydrocarbon Energy Age
As the Bush administration confronts the economy’s growing need for affordable and reliable energy, the critics of the hydrocarbon-based energy economy are back to the drawing board. The “soft” energy path of subsidies and mandates for conservation and nonhydro renewable energy—hatched during the 1970s energy crisis and popularized during the eight years of Clinton/Gore—was not [...]
1Nov2001 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 3 comments | Continued-
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