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Tax Freedom Day comes later in California
Orange County Register
By: Jason Clemens
4.16.2011
Californians sweating to complete tax returns by April 15 may be unaware that another milestone occurs the very next day. California's Tax Freedom Day will arrive on April 16. This should trouble Californians for a number of reasons.
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Obamacare mandate much like status quo
Orange County Register
By: John R. Graham
4.15.2011
The legal wrangling over President Barack Obama's health care law is heating up. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta recently announced that it would expedite its consideration of one constitutional challenge to the law.
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How to dilute the power of politicians
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
4.14.2011
When I lived in Iowa, I was an average citizen, and, one day, I had a question for the governor's office for an article I was writing for a small newsletter. I called the Capitol number and was transferred to an aide, who responded with something to this effect: "Why don't you come and ask the governor yourself? Are you free next Monday at 11:30?"
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Death Trap Democrats
The American Spectator
By: Peter Ferrara
4.13.2011
As Sally Pipes explained in an excellent March 24 Washington Post commentary, "Massachusetts is the blueprint for Obamacare, and [Governor Deval] Patrick is among those who want his state's plan to serve as a national model." Yet, "almost five years into his state's Romneycare plan, it turns out that spending is out of control, threatening public-sector budgets and private-sector wealth generation."
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BOOK REVIEW: How to dismantle Obamacare
Washington Times
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.12.2011
"ObamaCare is wrong for families, wrong for patients, wrong for business, and wrong for our children's futures." That's the thesis, laid out on the first page of the must-read "Why ObamaCare is Wrong for America," a powerful book co-written by four battle-tested veterans of Washington's health policy battles.
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GOP takes low road on immigration
Orange County Register
By: Steven Greenhut
4.11.2011
Republicans in the state Assembly, still high-fiving each other for stopping Jerry Brown's one proposal that actually made sense (ending redevelopment agencies), congratulated themselves last week for their tough stand on illegal immigration, another foolish decision that flies in the face of the GOP's free-market rhetoric. Several Assembly members stood on the Capitol steps to embrace a watered-down version of Arizona's controversial anti-illegal-immigration law.
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San Diego setting an example on pension reform
San Francisco Examiner
By: Steven Greenhut
4.11.2011
The city of San Diego has long been the poster child for pension abuse, but now it has a chance to become the statewide poster child for pension reform thanks to a ballot measure that top officials are circulating. San Diego’s efforts should be heartening to other California cities, including San Francisco, which are facing debt and curtailed public services because of pension costs.
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Why Brown should strengthen state transparency laws
San Jose Mercury News
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
4.6.2011
At a recent California community colleges board meeting, Gov. Jerry Brown said transparency is key to increasing voter trust in government and would help pass his tax-extension plan. He's right, but national sunshine week slipped by without Brown proposing any reforms to strengthen state sunshine laws. Instead, he worked to weaken them.
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Students blocked from attending better schools
San Francisco Examiner
By: Vicki E. Murray, Ph.D
4.4.2011
On Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act by a vote of 225 to 195. Last month a bipartisan coalition in Congress introduced the act reauthorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which bolsters a burgeoning choice movement nationwide. Powerful opponents, unfortunately, don’t want students in the nation’s capital to SOAR.
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