Timely lessons about tyranny from the Father of the Constitution • Reparations are well-motivated but cash won’t do
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Monday, June 17, 2024

More than 14,000 California high school graduates can’t work: This is a tragic waste of talent

This new generation needs a permanent solution. The idea of wasting the talents and dreams of this many young lives is simply too much to bear.

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Timely lessons about tyranny from the Father of the Constitution

“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” — James Madison

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Reparations are well-motivated but cash won’t do

California’s proposal appears to be aiming to discharge responsibility with a check.

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Jon Coupal: The big switch

Taxpayers can rest assured that the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is following this very carefully and will keep our members and other supporters informed.

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Joel Fox: Social media, search sites should pay news producers for news content

Figure out the details in AB 886. Reward the creators.

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Trump’s very bad idea on trade, taxes

Former president Donald Trump just can’t let a bad idea go. On Thursday, while meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump reportedly raised the idea of swapping higher taxes on imports for lower income taxes. It’s a tax scheme that makes little sense from virtually any perspective it is considered.

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Roberts court and judicial limitations

Americans concerned about the U.S. Supreme Court’s views on abortion may have been confused on Thursday when the court issued a unanimous ruling that maintained access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

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California’s new electric bill rate change scheme: Letters

Re “Fixed-fee utility scheme is bad news” (June 9): With ever-increasing taxes and the state deficit growing, politicians and government regulators continue to get paid for implementing unworkable and counterproductive policies. With hundreds of thousand of homes with solar panels and large-scale wind and solar farms to support a green, renewable energy fantasy that requires millions of expensive non-recyclable batteries that have to be replaced every few years, the electric grid continues to be less and less reliable and the demand for electricity will grow with electric vehicle mandates. Now we get to pay $25 a month for energy company […]

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Susan Shelley: Democrats vs. democracy

Three bad initiatives

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Some good news on street drug deaths

The fact that there were over 100,000 drug overdose deaths in the United States last year should sadden, and appall, all Americans.

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