Budget Related Opinion

From San Diego to Chico and Orange County to Santa Cruz, California Newspaper Editorials Highlight the Democrats’ Budget Problems

5/21/2012 - CSSRC CONTACT: Hector Barajas @ 916-651-4029 Democrats Provide 15.7 Billion Reasons To Say No To Taxes. “But until Sacramento tackles pensions, government's price tag will continue to rise and these budget surprises will continue to happen... read more

The problem with overreliance on the top 1%: Why Governor Brown’s revised tax proposal will hurt California

4/10/2012 - Walters In December, Governor Brown released a tax proposal that he planned to present to voters on the November 2012 ballot. It included a 4-year half-cent statewide sales tax increase and a 5-year tiered income tax increase on joint filers making over... read more

Facebook Windfall Should Protect Schools and Pay Down Debt

2/3/2012 - CSSRC Also published at The FlashReport on February 3, 2012 Facebook, the company that made social networking a phenomenon around the world, announced this week that they are taking the company public. While the value of the Facebook offering is still... read more

Partisan Budget Plan Already Causing More California Job Loss

7/5/2011 - Walters Democrats in Sacramento are still operating from the point of view that if government raises taxes, more revenue will ensue.  If members of the majority party would simply check empirical evidence, they would see that California has gone past... read more

Reforms Necessary to Fix California

4/19/2011 - Berryhill I am a fourth generation Californian with a family history of public service.  I have farmed the Central Valley of California my entire life.  I was raised with conservative values by parents who believed in California.  I learned... read more