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Continuing property wrongs since Prop 90's defeat
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Steven Greenhut
10.15.2007

Usually, when Americans are fleeced by their government, the fleecing comes in the form of wasteful spending programs. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2005 Kelo decision, upholding the “right” of local governments to take property from their current owners and give it to developers in the name of economic development, was perhaps the most massive fleecing Americans have witnessed in a generation.
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Sponsors of Proposition 63's So-Called "Millionaires' Tax" Earn PRI's California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
5.11.2007

In November 2004, Californians approved Proposition 63, imposing a new tax to expand mental-health services. Two years later, it is now clear that voters were either misled or misinformed about how the tax would work. Fairness calls for court review and, if needed, a referendum.
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Taxpayer-Funded Pensions for Felons? Only in Washington
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
2.28.2007

With the arrival of the New Year came the arrival of our new Democratic Congressional majority – a majority whose election platforms were saturated with grandiose promises to restore fiscal responsibility and integrity in Congress – to “clean house” so to speak.


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Union Front-Group CURE Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
12.5.2006

Southern California's need for electricity, combined with an abundance of land in the western reaches of Riverside County, has caused several power plants to sprout up in the Inland Empire over the past few years. Two of these plants are unique, not only in the region but in the state.

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California Taxpayers Fleeced Again to Pay for Union Propaganda
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Kevin Dayton
7.1.2006

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California budget passed on time, and without new taxes, but California taxpayers pleased with this development should know that, once again, they are paying the bills for union propaganda, activism, and even partisan politics.


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Sen. Richard Alarcon Breaks Rules to Oppose Prop. 75 and Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D., Xiaochin Claire Yan
10.1.2005

According to the state Senate’s Guide to Laws on Official Conduct for Legislators and Legislative Staff, California law prohibits the use of public funds or resources to advocate the passage or defeat of a ballot initiative. At a recent hearing on Proposition 75, the paycheck protection initiative, Senator Alarcon totally disregarded that prohibition.


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Another California Golden Fleece Gets Its Due: The End of Direct Taxpayer Funding for Union Think Tank
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Kevin Dayton
7.1.2005

The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to report that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has eliminated direct taxpayer funding for the Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) at the University of California by vetoing $3.8 million intended for it in the 2005-06 state budget. Few programs deserved elimination more than the ILE, which earned PRI's California Golden Fleece Award in July 2003 and April 2005 for its egregious waste of taxpayer money.
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Institute for Labor and Employment (ILE) Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Kevin Dayton
4.1.2005

Suppose California taxpayers had given the California Chamber of Commerce $25 million since 2000 to improve its membership recruitment and produce phony “studies” backing its priority legislation. One would expect outraged state legislators to single out this kind of unnecessary government spending as an obvious budget cut to reduce multi-billion-dollar budget deficits.
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Flawed and Outdated Public-Pension System Earns California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D, Anthony Archie
1.1.2005

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to modernize California’s public-pension system would help re-establish fiscal stability. The current system is consuming larger shares of the state budget and putting taxpayers on the hook for billion-dollar bailouts.
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Job-Killing Ballot Propositions Earn California Golden Fleece Award
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D, Anthony Archie
10.1.2004

Howard Jarvis, the father of the modern tax-revolt movement, opined about ballot initiatives: “I’d rather be governed by the masses than the asses.” Californians again have an opportunity to use their common sense and defeat three ballot measures that will kill jobs.
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