California’s secretary of state announced last week that the Billionaire Tax Act, an initiative supported by the state’s labor movement, has qualified for the November ballot. The supposedly one-time tax on individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion would raise an estimated $100 billion over five years. And according to a new Department of Health and […]
There is perhaps no better example of Democratic Party dysfunction than what one sees when visiting the aisles of an urban retail store. What you find is merchandise, some of it everyday items such as toothpaste and razor blades, locked away behind plastic cases. This is to prevent retail theft, which has become an epidemic […]
It’s 3 a.m. in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, and an all-night, drug-fueled party has been raging for hours. The sidewalks are littered with trash...
California’s latest gas-tax hike lands as voters this week rejected a range of local tax-hike measures statewide, including, apparently, in LA County, San Diego,...
