Budget Related Opinion

The problem with overreliance on the top 1%: Why Governor Brown’s revised tax proposal will hurt California

4/10/2012 - Walters In December, Governor Brown released a tax proposal that he planned to present to voters on the November 2012 ballot. It included a 4-year half-cent statewide sales tax increase and a 5-year tiered income tax increase on joint filers making over... read more

Facebook Windfall Should Protect Schools and Pay Down Debt

2/3/2012 - CSSRC Also published at The FlashReport on February 3, 2012 Facebook, the company that made social networking a phenomenon around the world, announced this week that they are taking the company public. While the value of the Facebook offering is still... read more

Partisan Budget Plan Already Causing More California Job Loss

7/5/2011 - Walters Democrats in Sacramento are still operating from the point of view that if government raises taxes, more revenue will ensue.  If members of the majority party would simply check empirical evidence, they would see that California has gone past... read more

Budget Stories: More Taxes Fund Waste

6/10/2011 - LaMalfa While we see the potential effects of the loss of revenue to key programs in the coming fiscal year, there are few who admit that what we are facing now is a direct result of years of irresponsible budgeting and our state’s direct assault on... read more

Reforms Necessary to Fix California

4/19/2011 - Berryhill I am a fourth generation Californian with a family history of public service.  I have farmed the Central Valley of California my entire life.  I was raised with conservative values by parents who believed in California.  I learned... read more

Budget Snapshot

1/12/2011 - Harman Overview: This week the Governor unveiled his 2011-12 state spending plan, which uses a combination of cuts and, if the voters approve, a five-year continuation of 2009’s temporary tax increases. This assumption is highly suspect given the... read more