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Cal-Tax Online Highlights:

November 8, 2005 Special Election

Cal-Tax Digest Articles.

• Williamson Act at 40: Aging Gracefully. By John Gamper, director of taxation and land use, California Farm Bureau Federation.

• Even This Boom Will Go Bust. By Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee columnist.

• Governor Takes a Look at Unsnarling Traffic. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Levee Costs are Breaking the Bank. By Robert Dutton, member, California State Senate.

• A Taxing Proposition for All Californians. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• CBEE Reforms Outline Proven Steps to Improve California's Public Schools. By Jim Lanich, president of California Business for Education Excellence

• California Tax Amnesty Program Causes Corporations to Pay for Protection. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Performance Management: What It Is and How to Get There. By Lawrence E. Stone, assessor, Santa Clara County

• Era of Reform Means End to Reckless Spending. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Ballot Box Tax Threats Surface as Schwarzenegger Battles Public Employee Union Over Government Overhaul. By The Cal-Tax Staff.

• Fixing America's Educational System: It's Clear That Government Alone Cannot Correct All the Problems. By Craig Barrett, CEO, Intel Corporation.

• Misused and Abused Tax Dollars: Roundup of the Best (Worst?) Cases of “Your Tax Dollars (Not) at Work” in 2004. By The Cal-Tax Staff.

• Cal-Tax: Public Pension Reforms Are a Must in 2005. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• November Voters Turn Down Most Local Tax Hikes; 7 of 10 Countywide Transportation Sales Tax Measures are Winners. By The Cal-Tax Staff

• Getting Back on Track. By Dr. Charles B. Reed, Chancellor, California State University system.

• Re-engineering State Government? For a Successful Model of Profound Transformation, See the Telecommunications Industry. By Robin MacGillivray, president, Business Communications Services, SBC, Western Region.

• Redistricting Reform: Reality or a Pipedream? By Tony Quinn, co-editor, California Target Book.

• Voters Face Barrage of State and Local Tax-Hike Measures; Local Ballots Contain More Than $800 Million Worth of Taxes to Go with $8.3 Billion at the State Level. By The Cal-Tax Staff

• Closing Unsustainable Public Pension Programs. By Keith Richman, member, California State Assembly.

• Ending "Form Over Substance". By Bill Leonard, member, California State Board of Equalization.

• Nice Deal for Orange County Employees; Unfair and Risky for Taxpayers. By Reed L. Royalty, president, Orange County Taxpayers Association.

• To Protect & Save. By Bruce Philpott, retired Chief of Police, Pasadena, CA.

• Protectionist Policies Will Cost Jobs, Harm Workers and Slow Our Economy. By Allan Zaremberg, president, California Chamber of Commerce.

• Lawmakers Sit on Study Praising Offshoring Jobs. By Daniel Weintraub, Sacramento Bee columnist.

• California Enacts Tax Amnesty for Personal, Corporate and Sales Taxpayers. By Chris Micheli, Snodgrass & Micheli, LLC

• Cal-Tax Urges Redevelopment Agency Reforms. By The Cal-Tax Staff.

• Proposed E-911 Tax is a Bad Call. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• California's Tax Burden: Who's Telling the Myths? By Jon Coupal, president, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.

• Reorganizing State Government is Critical Response to Out-of-Control State Spending. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President

• Repealing SB 1419: Giving School Districts Financial Flexibility, Taxpayer Accountability. By Kevin McCarthy, Republican Leader, California Assembly.

• The California Performance Review: Making Government Work Better and Cost Less. By Billy Hamilton.

• Taxpayers Deserve to Have Assets Better Managed. By Fred Aguiar, secretary, State and Consumer Services Agency.

• Is CalPERS Doing Its Real Job or Pursuing Side Agendas? By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee columnist.

• Backers Say Internet Access Tax Moratorium Would Help Consumers and Industry. By Matthew Vadum.

• California's Unemployment Insurance Fund: It's All About Balance. By Carol Evans, Cal-Tax Vice President.

• Soaring Public Pay and Benefits Fuel Fiscal Crises. A Cal-Tax Commentary.

• Highway Robbery: Another Davis Legacy Bites the Dust. By Daniel Weintraub, columnist, The Sacramento Bee

• Cuts and Taxes? Improve Productivity First. By Lenny Mendonca, director, McKinsey & Company.

• Senators Say Surplus State Property Wastes Tax Dollars.

• Proposition 56: A Blank Check for Higher Taxes. By Carol Evans, Cal-Tax Vice President.

• Proposition 57-58: The Right Opportunity for Economic Recovery. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President

• Employers Must Act Now to Help Lower Workers' Comp Costs. By Allan Zaremberg, president, California Chamber of Commerce.

• Workers" Comp Isn't Working. By Julie Meier Wright, president and CEO, San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.

• The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations Undermines Student Potential. By Kirk Clark, Executive Director, California Business for Education Excellence.

• Donna Arduin: The Other 'Star" of the New Administration. By Janis Dice, freelance write, editor and photographer.

• The Governor and the Business Climate. By Tony Quinn, widely published commentator on state politics and the economy.

• The Governor's Budget Stresses No New Taxes, Long-Overdue Reforms and Faith in Voters. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Sometimes Real Life is Stranger Than Fiction -- Especially in California Government. By Audrie Krause, STOP Hidden Gas Taxes.

• California's First State-Level Property Tax Since 1911. By John Gamper, director of taxation and land use, California Farm Bureau Federation.

• Chamber Continues to Highlight Impact of Paid Family Leave on Small Business. By Julianne Broyles, director of insurance, employee relations and small business, California Chamber of Commerce

• California Employers Face $2 Billion Tax Hike. By Carol Evans, Cal-Tax Vice President.

• In Praise of Lake Forest. By Reed L. Royalty, president, Orange County Taxpayers Association.

• Municipalization: A Land Mine -- Not Gold Mine -- for California's Cities. By Carol Evans, Cal-Tax Vice President.

• Taxes are a Heavy Burden in California. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Budget: Assembly Passes Overdue $99.1 Billion Budget in Marathon Session; Plan Papers Over Much of the Deficit. By David R. Doerr and Ron Roach, Cal-Tax staff.

• Tax $$$: Fraud & Waste. Misused and Abused Tax Dollars (August 2003). By the Cal-Tax Staff.

• Workers Compensation: A System in Crisis. By Tim Smith, Sonoma County supervisor and president, California State Association of Counties.

• Blank Check Initiative is a Cynical Trick. By Larry McCarthy, Cal-Tax President.

• Teacher Union Fights to Hold Sacramento High Down. By Daniel Weintraub, columnist, The Sacramento Bee

• Irvine's Ill-Conceived City Utility on Hold. By Reed Royalty, president, Orange County Taxpayers Association.

• Pension Crisis Swamps Cities and Counties. By Bob Taylor

• Workers' Compensation Crisis Afflicts Schools. By Chuck Poochigian, member, California Senate

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