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Government’s Hidden Bite out of Californians’ Take-Home Pay
Action Alert
By: Dean Stansel
5.29.1998
After you finished filling out your income tax forms last April, you probably thought you knew all about the taxes you pay. Think again. In addition to the amounts itemized on your pay stub and W-2 form, the government stealthily snatches a substantial sum from your employer for taxes he must pay on your behalf. That’s money you never see that could have gone to you in take-home pay.
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Government’s Hidden Bite out of Californians’ Take-Home Pay
Action Alerts
By: Dean Stansel
5.29.1998
After you finished filling out your income tax forms last April, you probably thought you knew all about the taxes you pay. Think again. In addition to the amounts itemized on your pay stub and W-2 form, the government stealthily snatches a substantial sum from your employer for taxes he must pay on your behalf. That’s money you never see that could have gone to you in take-home pay.
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Cheer Up
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
5.28.1998
President Clinton shocked no one with his recent veto of the bill that would have permitted a school choice experiment to go forward for a handful of poor students in Washington D.C., proving that this supposed “centrist” is really just an agent of reactionary liberalism, standing athwart history yelling “Stop!” Years from now it is likely that liberalism’s intransigent opposition to school choice will be seen as the dying gasp of a discredited governing philosophy, as perverse as governor George Wallace blocking the schoolhouse door in Alabama in 1963.
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How Californians Fare Under Today's Social Security System
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez
5.21.1998
President Clinton recently reported that Social Security trust fund’s projected insolvency date has been postponed by three years—until 2032. As the debate on the best way to reform this troubled system heats up, Californians will have a big stake in the reform that is eventually adopted.
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Bilingual Instruction: Education's Titanic
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
5.19.1998
How does it feel to be a passenger on the education version of the Titanic? Just ask bilingual education advocates who are facing a huge iceberg called Proposition 227, the ballot measure that would replace
bilingual education with sheltered English immersion.
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When It Comes to Color-blind Admissions, UC Should Stay the Course
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
5.19.1998
The drop in minority enrollment at the University of California has administrators exploring new ways of maintaining diversity while admitting students without regard to their race or ethnicity. A current proposal, to be voted on in July, would grant automatic admission to the top four percent of the graduates of each California high school. While this sounds fair and efficient, it is neither and will likely make the problem worse.
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Social Security Trustees’ Report: No Cause for Celebration
Action Alert
By: Naomi Lopez
5.8.1998
According to the Trustees of the Social Security program, the combined Social Security and Disability Trust Funds will remain solvent three years longer than previously predicted. But their 1998 report is like a string bikini: what it reveals is interesting; what it hides is crucial.
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Let Riggs Try to Un-rig University Admissions
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
5.6.1998
In an increasingly quixotic effort, House Republicans will take another stab this week at untangling the web of unconstitutional preference programs based on race and sex. As the massive Higher Education Act comes to a vote, Rep. Frank Riggs (R-CA) will offer an amendment to bar recipients of these federal education dollars from discrimination and preferences in admission.
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It Depends on Whose Gore is Being Oxed
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
5.5.1998
It looked as though another Earth Day might pass quietly last week, but then Sunday’s New York Times delivered a breathless front-page blast at “industry opponents” of the Kyoto global warming treaty, who are -- can you believe it -- actually organizing to oppose the treaty. What is surprising is not that industry would organize to oppose the treaty, but that the New York Times would think this front page news. This is the same newspaper, after all, that told everyone to calm down two months ago when the paper’s brethren in the news media were hyping the remote possibility that a large asteroid might come close to striking Planet Earth 30 years from now. How come, sensible skeptics note, the New York Times doesn’t apply the same “precautionary principle” to the possibility of earth-bound asteroids that it does to global warming?
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