written by Richard Rider Phone: 858-530-3027 From the Richard Rider Blog: www.RiderBlog.NotLong.com The left wing, big government group Next 10 has for some time touted their clever online survey – “The California Budget Challenge — How will YOU balance the budget?” It is a sophisticated scam. It is based on a logic fallacy – in this case, what logicians …
CA vs the other states — updated 1/30/11
Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters Version 1.754 Revised 30 January, 2011 Updated version online at: www.RiderBlog.NotLong.com Phone: 858-530-3027 Email: RRider@san.rr.com Here’s a depressing but documented 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 …
Four-fold increase in CA business departures
The numbers are in. Our departure rate for California businesses QUADRUPLED in 2010, compared to 2009. And there’s little sign of this trend reversing. Below is a brief summation from the Carpe Diem website. I strongly recommend you get their free daily email update. In the short Carpe Diem article below is a link to the more detailed story. — …
UPDATED: Breaking Bad – CA vs. the Other States
REVISED: Breaking Bad – CA vs. the Other States by Richard Rider on Saturday, January 22, 2011 Here’s the URL to my latest “Breaking Bad” fact sheet. Not good. “HIGHLIGHT”: Last month, CA moved up into a tie with Michigan for the 2nd highest state unemployment rate. The only “good” news? — we are no longer tied by Michigan. In …
Governor SHOULD commute sentences, but NOT Nunez
I thought today’s San Diego U-T editorial (“The action hero exits with a shameful act” ) condemning Arnold’s decision to commute the sentence of a political crony’s murderous adult son best reflected (well, at least touched on) my thinking. There are plenty of people in our HUGE prison system that have FAR better cases for commuting their sentences, or for …
CA vs other states fact sheet rev. 12-17-2010
Here’s the link to my latest dreary updated CA comparison. Please don’t read and drive. http://open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2010/12/17/breaking_bad_ca_vs_other_states_-_revised_121710 Three items of note: 1. A major tort reform organization rates CA the 2nd worst “judicial hellhole” in America — extremely anti-business. 2. Our net domestic CA out-migration continues, slowed only by our depressed CA housing market. 3. We are now tied with Michigan …
WSJ: HSR subsidy trains to nowhere
The flow of studies and editorials excoriating the California High Speed Rail train wreck come at us at ever-increasing speed and frequency. There’s only one description for this disaster that fits — FRAUD!!! Read the latest WALL ST JOURNAL editorial below. Note particularly the lies used to sell this gigantic hoax to the gullible voters, compared to more real world …
Education: A Money Pit?
“A cohesive education bureaucracy isn’t necessarily a good thing – not if that cohesion serves to preserve an unsatisfactory status quo at a time when school districts and states across the nation are climbing on the reform bandwagon.” – A Chance for Education Cohesion @sdut Frankly, that statement doesn’t go far enough when you look at once-failing school districts in …
Brown may be a surprisingly good governor
Brown may be a surprisingly good governor by RICHARD RIDER North County Times – Californian | Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:00 am Granted, Jerry Brown is crazy. Proof positive is that he ran for governor of California, a doomed state. But he just might be crazy in a good way. Who knows what Gov. Brown will do? I don’t. I …
Start Getting Used to It
Wa-a-a-y back when Election Day 2010 was a distant mirage, I predicted in the October 9, 2009 post titled “Moonbeam Shining Bright In Governor’s Race” that as crazy as his chances seemed, former Governor Jerry Brown would succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger. Today, poll results released by the Public Policy Institute of California, show Jerry Brown leading challenger Meg Whitman by eight …
Beating a dead Golden Bear — California vs. Texas
California is the benchmark that every state west of the Mississippi loves to compare itself to. Probably every one of these states’ business development agencies has a chart with “California vs. us” criteria. Guess who wins every time? Here’s a detailed study that just came out comparing CA with TX. The research firm is headed by Arthur Laffer. The results? …
End Run, Touchdown!
The quarterback gives the play in the huddle. Just after the snap, the defenders push to the center and the quarterback gets plowed from the side. The reason: the line decided to go with another play. In case you’re wondering, the public is the quarterback in this end run on the tax cap increase for the Centre City Development Corp. …
Private library company in San Diego
With our San Diego city council slashing local library hours and services — cutting the library budget 24% — perhaps it’s time for our wise leaders to look at what Riverside County did over a decade ago. The county, with 34 branches, contracted out the operation of their libraries to a private firm (LSSI), and today the county supervisors are …
Don’t Let the Media Start a Civil War
The media frenzy surrounding Arizona’s immigration law is nothing less than the press inciting a civil war. There is no shortage of hypothetical outcomes of the new law and these scenarios are repeated as if they are already “fact.” The new Arizona law does not take effect until the end of July, and no one has been stopped or questioned …
Taxpayers Association Issues Ballot Recommendations
One of the most important functions of groups like the San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA) is educating the rest of us. Providing voters with ballot recommendations that satisfy its criteria for accountable, cost-effective and efficient government has got to top the list. SDCTA has just completed its review of the June 2010 Primary Election state and local ballot measures …
All transportation subsidies are NOT the same
FROM MY BLOG: A common argument for High Speed Rail (indeed ALL passenger rail) taxpayer subsidies is the childish excuse that “everybody’s doing it.” All transit is subsidized, so why not rail? There are two glaring problems with this lame reasoning: 1. All transportation is NOT necessarily subsidized. User fees more than cover the federal cost of roads. 2. The …
The failure of the Vallejo, CA bankruptcy
From my blog: http://open.salon.com/blog/richard_rider/2010/03/30/the_failure_of_the_vallejo_ca_bankruptcy Below is a depressing WALL ST. JOURNAL article detailing the Vallejo, CA bankruptcy as a possible solution to local government fiscal problems — and how it’s not working as hoped. The writer, Steven Greenhut, is the author of “Plunder!” — a terrific if infuriating book describing our public employees’ stranglehold on California. As California’s unsustainable public …
CA vs. other states — revised 3-26-10
A number of you have seen my fact sheet “Breaking Bad — California vs. the other States.” If you have not, ingest your preferred recreational drug of choice and then open this URL for the latest version: http://tinyurl.com/CA-Breaking-Bad-3-26-10 Since I continuously update this fact sheet, it’s hard for my regular readers to spot what’s been changed or added. Here’s the …
California’s outrageous cost of electricity
While I’m not yet adding this electricity cost analysis to my “Breaking Bad” fact-sheet (hard to condense), it’s a situation my California readers need to know about. Our residential electricity rates are often outrageous compared to the rest of the nation. And, to get to the bottom line, under AB32, these lofty rates are predicted to go up ANOTHER 30% …
Dem Assembly Speaker gives 10% raises
SACRAMENTO BEE http://www.sacbee.com/2010/03/04/2583810_former-speaker-handed-out-staff.html Former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass quietly promoted 20 members of her Democratic caucus staff and gave them 10 percent salary increases that took effect her final days as Assembly leader. Click on above link for full story RIDER COMMENT: I love it! It cost us a pittance in the great scheme of things, but demonstrates the imperial …
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