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Commentaries
and Press Releases
Most of these articles are excerpted
from Cal-Tax publications and opinion articles written for newspapers.
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October 14, 2005 Press Release:
Why Proposition 76 Provides Schools with More Money
Next Year -
October 13, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Opposition Evaluation of Proposition 76 is
Predicated on Huge Tax Increase if the Initiative is Defeated -
September 26, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Supports Initiatives to Reform Budget
Process, Allow Judges to Draw Legislative Districts and Let Public
Employees Say How Their Union Political Dues Are Spent -
September 26, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Urges Yes Vote on Proposition 76 – Budget
Reform That Will Increase School Funding -
September 8, 2005 Press Release:
Tax Amnesty Implementation Falters – FTB Declines to Adopt a Definition of
“Due and Payable” -
September 7, 2005 Press Release:
Another Sneak Attack on
Taxpayers as Part of a 2005-06 Budget Trailer Bill -
July 5, 2005 Press Release:
A
Sneak Attack on Taxpayers as Part of a 2005-06 Budget Trailer Bill -
June 13, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Special Election is Worthy Investment in
Democracy -
June 1, 2005 Press Release:
Stop Hidden Taxes! Business and Taxpayer Groups Warn
That Budget Deals Could Hurt Taxpayers -
May 13, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: This Budget is Good News for Taxpayers -
May 11, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Higher Taxes Ill-Advised While Issues of
Mismanagement, Poor Performance, and Sloppy Budgeting are Unresolved -
May 9, 2005 Press Release:
Local Government
Budgets -
April 20, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Higher Taxes, Even on Wealthy, Hold Danger
of Destabilizing California's Chief Revenue Source -
February 16, 2005 Press Release:
Teresa Casazza Joins Cal-Tax Staff as Vice President
and Legislative Director -
February 3, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Why Can't Some
Elected Officials Just Say No to the Powerful Public Employee Union Lobby? -
January 10, 2005 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Governor's Budget Requires California to
Live Within Its Means Without Higher Taxes; Holds Spending Growth to 4.2%
to Keep state on Road to Recovery -
January 3, 2005 Press Release:
Semantic Problem Obfuscates the Budget Debate: Cuts
vs. Slobovian Losses -
November 17, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Next
Year's Budget Can Be Balanced if Spending Growth is Held to 4.2 Percent -
November 8, 2004 Press Release:
Voters Dislike New or Increased Taxes, Rejecting
Most Measures on Local Ballots -
November 3, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Voters Protect Business Climate; Reject
Flawed Initiatives - October 25, 2004 Press Release:
Voters Face Barrage of State and Local Tax-Hike
Measures - October 12, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Scores
Legislators' Voting Records on Key Tax Bills - October 4, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax:
Proposition 70 Could be Costliest "Bait-and-Switch" Deal in California
History - September 28, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Announces Positions on November Ballot
Propositions - September 15, 2004 Press Release:
Fraud and Waste - September 9, 2004 Press Release:
California
Taxpayers' Association Opposes Proposition 70 - August 13, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Praises Stand Against Gut-and-Amend Bills - August 3, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax President Larry McCarthy’s statement on the
California Performance Review - May 19, 2004 Press Release:
California Taxpayers’ Association Calls on Phone Tax
Campaign to Stop Issuing Fundraising Solicitations Designed to Appear
Like State Checks - May 5, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Criticizes Defeat of Competitive Contracting
Legislation - April 28, 2004 Press Release:
State Government Reorganization - April 27, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Calls on Legislators to Focus on Unbridled
Spending, Fraud and Waste, Not Tax Incentives - April 26, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Applauds Santa Clara County Supervisors on
Limiting Emergency Telephone Taxes - March 2, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax
Applauds Passage of Propositions 57-58 -
March 2, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Votes Against 56 are
Votes for a State Budget and Tax Policy that Encourage Bipartisan
Consensus - February 5, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Honors
Sacramento Bee's Deb Kollars for "Paying For Schools" Project - January 22, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Issues 2003 Scorecard on High-Priority Tax
and Other Public Finance Legislation - January 9, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Gov. Schwarzenegger's Budget Signals End to
State's Fiscal Nightmare - January 6, 2004 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Applauds Governor's No-New-Taxes Plan for
Economic Recovery and Attack on Wasteful Spending - October 28, 2003 Press Release:
Unemployment Insurance Tax Increase - September 29, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Endorses
Schwarzenegger for Governor - September 5, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Criticizes Legislature for Plan to
Violate Proposition 13 Constitutional Protections Against Taxes Raised
Without Two-Thirds Vote - August 19, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Radical Tax Plan Would Damage the
California Economy and Kill Jobs - August 15, 2003 Press Release:
Tax Threats Lurk in Final Four Weeks of Legislative
Session - August 14, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Criticizes Plan to Swap Car Tax Hike for
Higher Income and Tobacco Taxes - July 28, 2003 Press Release:
State Budget Myths - June 30, 2003 Press Release:
ACA 16 (Hancock) Split Roll - May 14, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Borrowing is Poor Substitute for Financial
Management - April 15, 2003 Press Release:
Californians Allied Against Regressive Taxation
Announces Unified Opposition to Proposed Diaper Recycling Tax - March 10, 2003 Press Release:
EDD Foresees $1.8 Billion Tax Hike on California
Employers - January 10, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: California Needs Economic Stimulus and
Financial Management, Not Higher Taxes - January 9, 2003 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Sales Tax Increase is
a Wrong Move - Why Cal-Tax Supports Statewide School Bond (Proposition 47) (Oct. '02)
- October 28, 2002 Press Release:
State and Local
Ballot Measures - September 10, 2002 Press Release:
Cal-Tax
Ballot Positions: Support for School Bonds, After School Programs - Cal-Tax: State Budget Process is Taxpayers' Nightmare (Aug. '02) By Larry McCarthy
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The Dangers of Temporary Tax Increases
(July '02)
By David R. Doerr -
The AB 1493 Sneak Attack Violated the
Legislative Process at the Future Expense of California Motorists
(Jul '02)
By Larry McCarthy -
Is There Still Fraudulent or Reckless Spending
of Tax Dollars in California? (July '02)
By The Cal-Tax Staff. -
Suspending the NOL: Something Wicked This Way
Comes
(June '02)
By Greg Turner - May 8, 2002 Press Release:
Split Roll Property Tax will Kill Thousands of
California Jobs -
A Greenhouse Trapdoor Built Into AB 1058
(May '02)
By Larry McCarthy, Allan Zaremberg, president, California Chamber of Commerce. -
It's a Spending Crisis (May '02)
By Greg Turner -
Spending $16 Million to Save $5 Million: Closing California’s Five
Privately Owned Prisons is Nonsense
(Apr. '02)
By Doug Kindrick -
Proposition
42: Raising Quality of Roads Without Raising Taxes (Feb.
'02)
By Larry McCarthy -
Taxpayers Urge Common Sense (Jan. '02)
By Larry McCarthy -
California
Must Conform to Federal Retirement Investment Law (Jan.
'02)
By Greg Turner - Satellites,
Government Tax Lawyers and Moving Vans (Sept. '01)
By Greg Turner - Get
State Government Out of the Energy-Buying Business
(Sept. '01) By Larry McCarthy - California
Needs More School Construction Bonds in 2002 (July '01)
By Larry McCarthy - Competition Killers: More Delays, Less Infrastructure
(May '01)
By Larry McCarthy - December 20, 2000 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Applauds
Republican Tax Plan - Alert: Split Roll Threatens Economy
(Nov. '00)
By Larry McCarthy - Preserving Economic Prosperity and Protecting Taxpayer Rights:
Proposition 37 (Oct. '00)
By Larry McCarthy - September
25, 2000 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Board takes positions on general election ballot propositions. - Spending Limits in Era of Record Revenues
(June '00)
By Stephen Kroes - Governor's Transportation Plan Needs More
Than Caltrans (May '00)
By Larry McCarthy - Voters to Policymakers: Infrastructure - Yes! (Apr. '00)
By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President - Taxpayer Policy Priorities for 2000 and Beyond (Mar. '00)
By Greg Turner - Groudan is New Cal-Tax Chair (Feb. '00)
- February 2000 Commentary:
State
Budget: Moving in the Right Direction
- November 30, 1999 Press Release:
Cal-Tax
Supports Bonds for Water and Parks; Repeal of Tobacco Tax Hike;
Opposes Tax Dollars for Election Campaigns
- November 1999 Commentary:
Abandoning
Legislative Process: The Dark Side
- October 1999 Commentary:
Electronic Commerce: Money Loser or Revenue Generator for Government?
- September 29, 1999 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Supports Fair Competition
and Taxpayer Savings Initiative
- September 1999 Commentary:
Californians Carry Heavy Tax
Burden
- August
16, 1999 Press Release:
Cal-Tax and Howard Jarvis Taxpayers
Association -- The Legislature Attempts to Skirt Prop. 13 with
$1 billion Tax Increase on Wages (SB 546 and SB 656)
Facts
About SB 546
- July 1999 Commentary:
Critical Need for Effective Child
Support Enforcement
- June 1999 Commentary:
Budget Surplus and the Economy
- April 1999 Commentary:
Better Planning to Meet Infrastructure
Needs
- April 1999 Commentary:
State Assessment After Deregulation
- February 1999 Commentary:
Business Unites for Quality Public
Education
- January
26, 1999 Press Release:
Henry is New Cal-Tax Board Chair - December
29, 1998 Press Release:
Staff Promotions at Cal-Tax: Kroes is Vice President; Turner is Legislative Director; Martin is Policy Analyst - December
16, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax and other business organizations announce the formation of California Business for Education Excellence - December
1998 Commentary:
Business Turns Up the Volume for Quality Public Education
- December 1998 Commentary:
1998: California Competitiveness
- November 1998 Commentary:
Government Spending: Higher and
Higher
- October 1998 Commentary:
Cal-Tax Positions on Key Ballot
Propositions
- October
1, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Praises Veto of Flawed
"Taxpayer Rights" Bill (AB 1469, Ortiz)
- September
30, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Positions on November
3 Ballot Measures
- September
1, 1998 Press Release:
News Release from Senate Republican
Leader Ross Johnson: Johnson Bill Targeting Double Taxation goes
to Governor (SB 1997)
- August
24, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Internet Tax Freedom
Act is Landmark Law for California
- July 1998 Commentary:
Continuing Conflict over Public
Monopolies
- June
29, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax: Electric Utility Initiative
would Damage the Economy
- June
26, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Supports Cut in Car Tax
- June
3, 1998 Press Release:
Proposition 224 defeated!
- June 1998
Commentary:
Where did the windfall come from?
- May 1998
Commentary:
Car Tax Revolt Has Familiar Ring
of Taxpayer Appeal
- April
1998 Commentary:
Prop. 224: Damaging Everyone
- March
31, 1998 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Lauds New Deregulated
Electric Industry
- March
1998 Commentary:
Internet: Locals' Appetite for
Taxes is Genuine Cause for Concern
- February
1998 Commentary:
A Year of Transition, Turbulence
and Taxpayer Vigilance
- January
22, 1998 Press Release:
Greg Turner Joins Cal-Tax as
General Counsel
- December
1997 Commentary:
Informing the Local Bonds Debate
- November
1997 Commentary:
Spectacular Year for Taxpayers
- October
1997 Commentary:
Taxpayers Triumph in 1997
- September
30, 1997 Press Release:
Cal-Tax Opposes Labor's Anti-Business
Initiatives
- September
1997 Statement:
Cal-Tax Reacts to Tax-Cut Package
- September
1997 Commentary:
Budget Protects Taxpayers
- September
5, 1997 Press Release:
Capital Gains Conformity is Needed
-- Now
- July
1997 Commentary (Early Edition):
It's Not About Welfare Reform
- June 1997
Commentary:
If We Spend it All, a Deficit
will Come
- May 1997
Commentary:
AB 1027, Trial de Novo
and California's Image
- April
1997 Commentary:
Spending Priorities for 1997
- March
1997 Commentary:
1997 Tax Priorities
- December
15, 1996 Commentary:
Proposed 'living wage' is costly,
self-defeating
- December
1, 1996 Commentary:
More money for schools must be
spent wisely
- November
15, 1996 Commentary:
Election message: Yes on the
economy and jobs; no on taxes!
- November
1, 1996 Commentary:
Prop. 212: Wolf In Sheep's Clothing
- October 15,
1996 Commentary:
Prop. 211: real motivation is
lawyer profits
- October
1, 1996 Press Release:
Cal-Tax opposes anti-taxpayer
measures on Nov. 5 ballot
- October
1, 1996 Commentary:
What's so wrong about voter approval
to raise taxes?
- September
15, 1996 Commentary:
No on 217: higher taxes chase
away jobs
- September
1, 1996 Commentary:
Welfare reform: opportunity for
greater efficiency
- August 15,
1996 Commentary:
L.A. pension scheme is costly
budget maneuver
- July
15, 1996 Commentary:
The California Budget: Setting
Priorities
- July 1,
1996 Press Release:
Cal-Tax takes positions on six
ballot measures
- July 1, 1996
Commentary:
CCRC recommendations shortchange
taxpayers
- June
15, 1996 Commentary:
Option B: Reducing Class Size
the Cost-Effective Way
- June
1, 1996 Commentary:
Good news: robust economy; bad
news: efforts to spend more on government
- May 15,
1996 Commentary:
Comparing tax burden
- May 1,
1996 Commentary:
Trial de novo -- a matter of
fairness
- April
15, 1996 Commentary:
Locals scramble to protect illegal,
non-voted taxes
- April 1,
1996 Commentary:
Street trenching fees: disguised
taxes?
- March 18,
1996 Press Release:
Cal-Tax supports six March 26
ballot propositions
- March
15, 1996 Commentary:
Bringing Balance to Property
Tax Administration
- March 1,
1996 Commentary:
How (Not) to Measure Tax Burden
- February
15, 1996 Commentary:
Prop. 203: Overriding Need for
School Facilities
- February
1, 1996 Commentary:
It's Back to Basics for Government
Efficiency
- January
15, 1996 Commentary:
Wilson's budget is welcome news
for taxpayers, job-seekers and job-creators
- December
15, 1995 Commentary:
1996: Year of the Big Decisions
- December
1, 1995 Commentary:
An improved business climate
equals more revenues for California
- November 15,
1995 Commentary:
Taxpayers work with FTB to implement
MICs
- November
1, 1995 Commentary:
Prevailing wage: source of taxpayer
anger, but needed reforms are proposed
- October
15, 1995 Commentary:
Federal Block Grants Are No Excuse
to Raise Taxes
- October
3, 1995 Press Release:
Fairness Is Goal of Major Property
Tax Reform Bill
- October 1,
1995 Commentary:
Question: To fee or not to fee?