California Commentary: The lamest excuse for the high-speed rail project
By Jon Coupal – May 19, 2025 Opposition to California’s high-speed rail project keeps mounting. What began as a $10 billion bond measure to fund a rail project that would…
CALIFORNIA COMENTARY: Did the Legislature forget the pension crisis?
By Jon Coupal – May 12, 2025 Years ago, when my family went to a popular Mexican restaurant, my young son started reaching for a raw habanero pepper. I told…
California Commentary: Sales tax increases slam the middle class in California
By Jon Coupal From the perspective of taxpayers, this month was most notable for the April 15th deadline for filing state and local income tax returns. But just two weeks…
CALIFORNIA COMMENTARY – How transfer taxes steal your home equity
By Jon Coupal – March 31, 2025 As a homeowner, you dutifully pay your property taxes every year, no matter how painful. Notwithstanding Proposition 13’s tax limitations, California is not…
CALIFORNIA COMMENTARY – Mission creep inevitably bites taxpayers
By Jon Coupal – March 24, 2025 “Mission creep” is generally understood to mean the gradual or incremental expansion of a project or mission beyond its original scope. In military…
California Commentary: State Assembly slams the door on dissenters
By Jon Coupal – March 18, 2025 The attitude of Democrats in the Legislature seems to be that, if it’s bad news, we don’t want to hear it. And if…
CALIFORNIA COMMENTARY: Warriors against waste have their work cut out for them
By Jon Coupal – March 3, 2025 Readers of this column might recall the name Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Special Services Inc. Along with yours truly, he co-authored two…
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California fails the ‘nation state’ test By Jon Coupal – February 19, 2025 A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States was cleared…
