The Courts against Proposition 65
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American Thinker.com ^
| March 13, 2018 | Richard Zuber
A federal judge has frozen plans to require all products containing the widely popular herbicide glyphosate to display a Proposition 65 warning in a landmark ruling that could signal the turning of the tide for California's nanny-state regulations. The
decision by Federal District Judge William Shubb represents a significant blow to both to the much maligned Proposition 65 and the organization that accounts for so many of its listings, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Shubb's ruling is a major victory for states' rights – due to the size of California's economy, its overregulation spills over into other...
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The Necessity of Proposition 22
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Townhall.com ^
| October 30, 2020 | Edward Lounge
On November 3rd, California voters will decide whether Proposition 22, a ballot initiative that would exempt ride sharing apps and food delivery companies from the draconian labor regulations of AB.5, should become state law. Proposition
22 would allow ride share apps like Uber, as well as food delivery companies like DoorDash and Grubhub, to continue to classify its workers as independent contractors, but mandate a minimum level of compensation and the provision of certain benefits for individuals who work a set number of hours. Proposition 22 would also mandate advanced training and protections for drivers. Most importantly, the proposition on...
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Proposition 57: Do You Feel Lucky?
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Townhall.com ^
| October 23, 2016 | Debra J. Saunders
Sponsors say Proposition 57, the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, will save taxpayers money by making nonviolent felons eligible for parole earlier and improve fairness by having judges, not prosecutors, decide whether juveniles are tried as adults. Critics
call it a "get out of jail early" card. I would add that it's the sort of dishonest measure that becomes commonplace under unaccountable one-party rule. State pols gamed the system to get it on the ballot. The title promises public safety when it could result in the early release of repeat offenders. Yet California voters are likely to...
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A can’t lose gun control proposition
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Flopping Aces ^
| 11-09-17 | DrJohn
The bodies in Texas weren't cold when the moronic Senators from my state of CT- Murphy and Blumenthal- were already politicizing the tragedy. Both
of these tools called for "common sense" gun control measures as if none existed today. Further, they failed to mention what these simple "common sense" measures are, but then again they never do. So let me offer an outline for more gun control. Let us assume that democrats will be calling for another ban on assault weapons, or anything that looks like an assault weapon or just looks plain scary, toys included. Such a plan would...
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Repeal Proposition 19âs Death Tax
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Pasadena Star-News ^
| February 17, 2022
An initiative passed narrowly by voters in 2020 to protect wildfire victims and seniors has opened the door to massive tax increases that threaten tenants and the roof over their heads. Proposition
19 removed important taxpayer protections from the state constitution that for 35 years guaranteed that parents or grandparents could transfer property to their kids without any change to the property tax bill. The removal of these protections has brought back the death tax to California. Now, when property is passed from parent to child, it is reassessed to current market value, triggering a huge increase in annual property...
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Yes, California's Proposition 13 Is Racist
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Desert Sun ^
| July 9, 2023 | Patrick Murphy
For decades, economists and analysts ignored the racial effects of how the government raises taxes. Now
the introduction of race into the tax equation has blown things up a bit. This month marks the 45th anniversary of Proposition 13. Although the impact of Prop 13 on the state’s public finance landscape is far-reaching and mostly negative, the capping of property tax assessments is its signature element. It creates a property tax subsidy that increases the longer you own your home. As long as the value of your home grows faster than 2% a year, you come out ahead. As a...
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What is California Proposition 6...Repeal of a bogus GAS TAX !
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Sept 18, 18 | hapnHAL
I believe there is a serious problem with PROP 6. Here
is what happened to me today. I went to register my car at an off site non DMV registration office. I ask the owner, whom I have known for years, a question. If she was going to vote YES on Prop 6? Her response "What's Prop 6?" I was shocked. So told her about PROP 6. Also, on my way out of her office, I ran into an old friend who owns a auto salvage yard.. I also asked him about Prop 6 Again he said he never heard...
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Proposition 55 would extend "temporary" tax for 12 years [CA]
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Associated Press ^
| Oct 15, 2016 10:51 AM EDT | Juliet Williams
When Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies urged voters to adopt a temporary income tax on the wealthiest Californians and a statewide sales tax on everyone four years ago, the deal was billed as a short-term salve for a state mired in debt and on the verge of insolvency. The
taxes were needed to stave off $6 billion in so-called “trigger cuts” to schools and social programs baked into the state budget by Democrats as a threat to voters. Lawmakers also threatened to cut three weeks off the school year if Proposition 30 didn’t pass. […] Now, with the sales...
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The Immigration Trump Card, a Win-Win Proposition
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freerepublic.com ^
| September 9th, 2016 | Uncle Sham
Imagine for a moment what we could do with our Mexican border if we take an economic approach to it. We
could create economic development zones where our interstate highways reach the border that would utilize American technology along with the cheap labor from Mexico and put China and Korea out of business. Illegal immigrants would filter back to these locations in droves in order to once again live where they would prefer yet still make a living. The jobs they leave behind in their self-migration back to the border would open up for Americans looking for employment. Manufacturing that...
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Proposition 13 is no longer off-limits in California
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The San Francisco Cornholicle ^
| December 26, 2018 | Joe Garofoli
Proposition 13 is untouchable. That’s been the thinking for 40 years in California. Politicians have feared for their careers if they dared suggest changes to the measure that capped property taxes, took a scythe to government spending and spawned antitax initiatives across the country. However,
that is beginning to change. With Republican influence in California on the wane and ascendant Democrats making tax fairness an issue, advocates are confident that the time is right to take a run at some legacies of the 1978 measure.
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Why superorganism logic is an outstanding value proposition
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GreenBiz ^
| May 20, 2017 | Tamsin Woolley
With apologies to Jane GoodallÂ’s furry colleagues, chimps are just not good people. A
friend of mine lost the better part of his hand to a really nasty one and Dr. Goodall herself watched an all-male patrol systematically exacting genocide on the males of a neighboring troop. There is a profound difference between us, but genetically, we’re 98 percent alike. If we just nudged the evolutionary clock back the tiniest bit — on every airline passenger, Starbucks customer, coworker and passerby — our societies would dissolve in a horrifying bloodbath. But they don’t. We just board the plane and assume...
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Civil Divorce since Proposition 8 Overturned?
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Sacra Pizza Man Blog ^
| 4/3/2013 | Sacra Pizza Man
This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. – G.K. Chesterton Question to Canonist Ed Peters: If the Court presumes to equate our Matrimony, the Queen of Sacraments, with Sodomy; Can we not regard the action as having abrogated
the terms of the civil rite, rendering what was formerly a mirror or echo of the essential Sacrament, now a ludicrous parody? Co-Author with Sherif Girgis and Robert P. George of “What Is Marriage“, Heritage Foundation speaker Ryan T Anderson, rather unilaterally “debated” some of this question with...
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Is California ready for a Proposition 13 overhaul?
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San Jose Mercury ^
| 2/7/2018 | Katy Murphy
A new ballot initiative that takes aim at how commercial properties are taxed under California’s Proposition 13 could raise $6 to $10 billion more each year for schools and and other programs and services, according to a new analysis by the Legislative Analyst’s Office. At the heart of the initiative, which is
still being reviewed by the state attorney general’s office, is a property tax law enshrined in the state constitution since 1978. Proposition 13 caps taxes for all kinds of properties — residential and commercial — at 1 percent of a property’s purchase price, allowing for increases of no...
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Opinion: Voters Should Reject This Proposition 13 (California)
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EdSource ^
The confusingly numbered “Proposition 13” on the March 3 statewide ballot will waste taxpayer dollars, needlessly increase the state’s debt burden and encourage school districts to issue more debt, raising property tax bills. Voters
should reject it. Passed in a rush by the Legislature as Assembly Bill 48, this Prop. 13 is a grab-bag of goodies for the well-connected. For Wall Street bond underwriters and investors, it’s $15 billion in general obligation bonds that will cost taxpayers about $26 billion when decades of interest costs are added. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates that Prop. 13 will cost taxpayers $740 million...
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Proposition 13 Modification On The Ballot For November 2020
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KHTS ^
| January 14, 2020 | Jade Aubuchon
The 2020 ballot initiative would amend the state constitution to require commercial and industrial properties, except those zoned as commercial agriculture, to be taxed based on their market value. Under
the new initiative, residential properties are excluded from this potential policy and would continue to be taxed under the original requirements of Proposition 13, when property ownership changes or when new construction is done. Property tax rates would not change, and there would be a qualified exception for some small businesses, according to official documents. First set in 1978, Proposition 13 places a cap on tax rates for residential, commercial...
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The Scary Proposition That Trump Is Gradually Becoming More Popular
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New York Magazine's Intelligencer ^
| August 7, 2019 | Ed Kilgore
If there has been one bit of conventional wisdom about 2020 that has most comforted left-of-center analysts like me, it’s that Donald Trump’s job approval ratings seem exceptionally stagnant and too low to support the evident optimism of his conservative media boosters. I
made that argument just a few days ago in a piece looking at evidence that Trump’s actual voting appeal may not be much better than those shaky approval ratings. But now comes the formidable number cruncher Nate Cohn with a challenge to this assumption from a couple of different directions. It will be received by many Times...
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California Proposition Results: November 2016
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LA Times ^
| November 9, 2016 | Staff
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Tobacco tax proposition draws national spotlight once again
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Winston-Salem Journal ^
| Sept 10, '16 | Richard Craver
California is once again in the national bull’s eye for a proposed major hike in its tobacco excise tax, with both sides touting potential ripple effects upon public health and the tobacco industry. Proposition
56, which is on the Nov. 8 ballot, gives Californians the ability to raise the tax by $2 per pack to $2.87. California is not only the nation’s most populous state at 39.1 million, but also a trend setter for statewide propositions and referendums, Since Californians are responsible for about 6.6 percent of the U.S. cigarette and snuff volume consumption, analysts have said the effect on...
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EDITORIAL: The real agenda behind Proposition HH. ( Colorado )
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Denver Gazette ^
| 8/7/2023 | The Gazette editorial board
Property-tax relief? Hardly. Proposition HH on this fall’s statewide ballot is really about growing government. And
it attempts to do that by piggybacking on public outrage over skyrocketing property tax bills. The proposal’s purported property-tax “relief” — served up by Gov. Jared Polis and his legislative allies as one part of their dizzyingly complicated scheme — is a ruse. As with every attempt to play politics with a crisis, there’s a hidden agenda. And that agenda is to snooker Colorado voters into letting the state keep and spend billions of dollars in surplus tax revenue that otherwise would have to...
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Proposition B defeated by a thin margin after more than 150,000 votes are cast
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NEWS 4 San Antonio ^
| May 1, 2021 | Amanda Henderson
Proposition B has failed. The San Antonio Police Department will keep collective bargaining moving forward.The final vote tally is as follows:For: 73,306Against: 76,781Total Votes Cast: 150,087Governor Greg Abbott weighed in on the race, tweeting the following:SAPOA released the following statement to us: We want to thank the people of San Antonio. Tonight
they voted to support their police officers, protect our right to collective bargaining, and ensured that we can continue to keep our neighborhoods safe. To the people of San Antonio we say- we’ve always had your back, tonight you had ours. Thank you.
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