February 2002

ELECTRONIC EDITION

February 2002

Volume 6, No. 2

SUBJECT		ARTICLE
TAXES		Pledging a Business-Friendly California. Richard Riordan, running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, outlines his positions on tax issues.
TAXES		State Tax Policies Need Fundamental Reform. Bill Simon Jr., running for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, outlines his positions on tax issues.
ELECTION		Prop. 42 Raises Quality of Roads Without Raising Taxes. This Cal-Tax commentary is authored by Larry McCarthy.
LOCAL TAX ELECTIONS		Cal-Tax Roundup: Voters on March 5 will decide billions of dollars in local bond and tax measures, as well as an unusual number of torrid county assessor races. This is a link to various local election articles that have been published in recent issues of Caltaxletter.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY		Consolidating California’s Energy Bureaucracy. California’s energy bureaucracy is in dire need of an overhaul – and a new all-encompassing department, say Bill Hauck of the California Business Roundtable and Allan Zaremberg of the California Chamber of Commerce.
Government Budgeting		Bush's Budget and Performance-Based Contracting. President Bush’s new budget plan features performance-based contracting, reports Adrian Moore of the Reason Public Policy Institute.
GOVERNMENT BUDGETING		Improving Government Performance Through Competitive Contracting. How to improve government performance through competitive contracting, by Dr. Ronald D. Utt of the Heritage Foundation.
STATE TAXES		Natural Heritage Preservation Tax Credit: Millions are approved and millions are left to be approved, reports Gina Rodriquez of Spidell Publishing, Inc.

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