California – The Land of (Missed) Opportunity

Dustin SteinerDustin Steiner Leave a Comment

Ten years ago Apple was worth $10 billion dollars.  Today, the world’s most valuable company boasts a worth of $600 billion.  This kind of incredible growth in such a short period of time can only happen in America.  In addition, these numbers speak nothing of the revolutionary advances Apple has made to the way we do business and the improvement …

42% of all states’ 2009 tax increases due to CA

Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax FightersRichard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters Leave a Comment

Rider Blog entry: http://tinyurl.com/2009CA-Tax-increase In 2009, 24 states raised their taxes at least 1% to collect $28.6 billion. California’s taxes went up over $12 billion. Thus last year California — with 12% of the nation’s population — was responsible for about 42% of all the state tax increases in the nation. This factoid was gleaned from SACRAMENTO BEE columnist Dan …

UPDATE: CA vs. other states 1/26/10

Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax FightersRichard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters

Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters Version 1.57 Revised 26 January, 2010 Phone: 858-530-3027 Here’s a depressing comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is breaking bad, and getting worse (I keep updating this article): California has the 3rd worst state income tax …