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Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?
During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
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Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices
I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
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Here’s 6 Ways We Can Fix and Fund California’s Roads Without a Tax Increase
The Sacramento Bee recently ran an article with a rather curious headline – “Fix California roads without the new gas taxes?” Reading the article from our friends at the Bee, they make it seem like funding road repair projects without a tax increase was as foreign a concept as encountering ...
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Wait Time Scandal Shows DMV Still Doesn’t Get It
Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things certain in life – death and taxes. In California, you could add a third – hatred of the DMV. Anyone who has ever signed up for a driver’s license or register a vehicle knows just how inefficient, and at times ...
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They’re Back – The Legislature Starts Final Month of 2018 Session Today
For me, there was perhaps no scarier movie as a kid growing up in the 1980’s than the classic “Poltergeist”. The most iconic moment of the film is when the little girl screams out to her parents, “They’re Back!” Today is a good day to play that clip again and ...
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We’d Love to Go Out for Lunch, But We’re Busy and Can’t Afford It
In my prior job, I usually brought my lunch to work. Every now and then, when I would forget to pack a lunch, or the cupboard was bare, I would grab a sandwich in the cafeteria. While I’ve sampled some great food at state office building cafeterias, the cafeteria in ...
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Sacramento Rent Fund Just Another Name for Basic Income
Last week, I wrote about a controversial plan in the City of Stockton to essentially hand a selected group of people wads of cash each month to do nothing. Under this universal basic income scheme, they wouldn’t have to work or adhere to some milestone to be eligible for the ...
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Giving People Cash to Do Nothing Won’t Reduce California Poverty
The latest hot social theory in California is universal basic income. Essentially, it’s about paying people to do nothing. Academics and tech titans have promoted it to address poverty, rising costs of living, and even the temporarily disruptive effects of innovation. Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs has generated national headlines for ...
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You Should’ve Been There – On PRI’s Vancouver Conference on Free-Market Environmentalism
Whenever you hear about efforts to preserve our environment, it always involves ill-conceived policy prescriptions, taxpayer-funded subsidies, or heavy-handed government mandates. Take, for example, the work by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden on electric car subsidies. While noble in intent, the subsidies amount to government playing car salesman. Using your money, government ...
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Is Crony Capitalism Alive and Well in California?
If there’s one thing that unites Californians, it’s a disdain for crony capitalism. What is crony capitalism, you ask? We see it all the time. Think local elected officials throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Amazon to try and lure their second global headquarters to their city. PRI’s senior ...
Other Countries are Abandoning Basic Income – Will Stockton Learn from These Failures?
During her recent campaign swing through California, Democratic socialist Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez visited the asparagus capital of America to meet with Mayor Michael Tubbs and explore ways to take a local universal basic income plan nationwide. “We talked about the similarities between her district and Stockton, about increasing opportunity, and basic ...
Parents Don’t Need Sacramento to Make Their Kids’ Food Choices
I’ve written before about Sacramento’s efforts to try and dictate how people live their lives through over-reaching legislation. On Thursday, we saw that some Sacramento liberals are taking things a step further, telling California’s parents how they should raise their children. Senate Bill 1192, by Sen. Bill Monning, D-Santa Cruz, ...
Here’s 6 Ways We Can Fix and Fund California’s Roads Without a Tax Increase
The Sacramento Bee recently ran an article with a rather curious headline – “Fix California roads without the new gas taxes?” Reading the article from our friends at the Bee, they make it seem like funding road repair projects without a tax increase was as foreign a concept as encountering ...
Wait Time Scandal Shows DMV Still Doesn’t Get It
Benjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things certain in life – death and taxes. In California, you could add a third – hatred of the DMV. Anyone who has ever signed up for a driver’s license or register a vehicle knows just how inefficient, and at times ...
They’re Back – The Legislature Starts Final Month of 2018 Session Today
For me, there was perhaps no scarier movie as a kid growing up in the 1980’s than the classic “Poltergeist”. The most iconic moment of the film is when the little girl screams out to her parents, “They’re Back!” Today is a good day to play that clip again and ...
We’d Love to Go Out for Lunch, But We’re Busy and Can’t Afford It
In my prior job, I usually brought my lunch to work. Every now and then, when I would forget to pack a lunch, or the cupboard was bare, I would grab a sandwich in the cafeteria. While I’ve sampled some great food at state office building cafeterias, the cafeteria in ...
Sacramento Rent Fund Just Another Name for Basic Income
Last week, I wrote about a controversial plan in the City of Stockton to essentially hand a selected group of people wads of cash each month to do nothing. Under this universal basic income scheme, they wouldn’t have to work or adhere to some milestone to be eligible for the ...
Giving People Cash to Do Nothing Won’t Reduce California Poverty
The latest hot social theory in California is universal basic income. Essentially, it’s about paying people to do nothing. Academics and tech titans have promoted it to address poverty, rising costs of living, and even the temporarily disruptive effects of innovation. Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs has generated national headlines for ...
You Should’ve Been There – On PRI’s Vancouver Conference on Free-Market Environmentalism
Whenever you hear about efforts to preserve our environment, it always involves ill-conceived policy prescriptions, taxpayer-funded subsidies, or heavy-handed government mandates. Take, for example, the work by PRI’s Wayne Winegarden on electric car subsidies. While noble in intent, the subsidies amount to government playing car salesman. Using your money, government ...
Is Crony Capitalism Alive and Well in California?
If there’s one thing that unites Californians, it’s a disdain for crony capitalism. What is crony capitalism, you ask? We see it all the time. Think local elected officials throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Amazon to try and lure their second global headquarters to their city. PRI’s senior ...
