Ditch the subsidies to get more housing • How California’s bursting budget morphed into a $45 billion deficit in just two years
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| | On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over the constitutionality of Proposition 22. Approved by over 58% of voters in 2020, the measure allowed app-based transportation and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft to continue to work with drivers hired as independent contractors. |
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| There’s little disagreement that California has a housing-affordability crisis, as the state’s average home value is close to $800,000 and well over $1 million in coastal markets. These astounding prices have put a squeeze on lower-income Californians and exacerbated the homelessness problem, so lawmakers — and voters — continue to approve subsidies for affordable-housing projects. |
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| Spending money based on volatile revenue estimates is not only foolish but cruel because – as this year proves – it raises expectations that later turn to pixie dust. |
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| We have a moral obligation to abolish the death penalty not just in California, but nationwide. |
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| The kind of politician the moribund current CGOP can only dream of. |
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| Whichever candidate does a better job of addressing the concerns voters have and outlines a compelling vision for the country will seize the momentum heading into summer. |
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| So, one might ask, where is California’s once-booming economy headed? |
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| Since the current president, very much along with the former one, is clearly so enamored of placing the very heavy boot of the federal government into the marketplace, in what seems a grand homage to the way that the Chinese government runs its economy, why not just go all in? |
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| It’s not about stopping retail theft and it’s glaringly obvious why retailers are against it. |
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