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Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment Ban Another Major Burden on Minority Entrepreneurs
Not surprisingly, Gov. Newsom signed controversial legislation (Assembly Bill 1346) to ban the sale of gas-powered lawn equipment. The new law will be another costly burden on the estimated nearly 8,300 landscaping businesses in the state, many of whom are minority entrepreneurs. It’s the latest in a series of taxes, ...
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Democrats Have Built a Healthcare Agenda Around an Imaginary Crisis
Is America in the midst of a health insurance crisis? That’s the picture Democrats in Washington are painting. According to their narrative, health coverage is out of reach for a number of Americans. Only an aggressive — and exorbitantly expensive — effort to expand the number of people covered by taxpayer-funded insurance ...
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The Untold Story of the Unspent Covid Dollars
It was recently uncovered that back in July, Sen. Joe Manchin outlined his views on the $3.5 trillion social spending package in a memo to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. In that document, Manchin specified that no funds should be distributed until after all the money from the $1.9 trillion ...
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KFBK Interviews Wayne Winegarden on CA Migrating Study
Pacific Research Institute senior fellow and economist Dr. Wayne Winegarden joined the KFBK Morning News to talk about Tesla’s latest announcement that it’s moving its HQ to Texas and the findings in PRI’s most recent study “California Migrating.” Winegarden and hosts Sam Shane and Cristina Mendonsa talk about reasons for ...
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Two Steps in the Right Direction for Free-Market Policy Ideas
2021 can best be described as another year of progressive advancement in the once-Golden State. However, there were some notable free market policy achievements that are worth applauding, specifically two bills signed by Gov. Newsom in recent days. While neither of these bills could truly be described as true policy ...
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Bears, Vetoes, and Recalls
What do a man in a bear suit, a recall, and California Governor Gavin Newsom have in common? They are all part of a stranger than fiction story about the latest bill to fall victim to the Governor’s veto pen. This week, Governor Newsom vetoed California Senate Bill 660. Don’t ...
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Sunday Morning Newsmakers Features Saving California
Steven Greenhut, editor of the new PRI book “Saving California,” joined Larry Marino on KRLA’s Sunday Morning Newsmakers to talk about the California recall, wildfires, and the many public policy woes facing the state. Greenhut gives a detailed breakdown of the controversy around the Newsom administration’s misstated wildfire prevention efforts ...
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Two Years After Voters Said No, Special Interests Try Again to Pass Split Roll
Not quite a year ago, California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have partially unwound Proposition 13, the landmark initiative that set off an “entrepreneurial and commercial explosion” and “a second California gold rush.” Supporters of the “split roll,” a tax regime in which residential properties retain their Prop. ...
Commentary
Bernie’s Not-So-Subtle Single-Payer Plot
Senator Bernie Sanders (I.,Vt.), America’s most prominent proponent of government-run health care, is once again leading the charge to move our country to a single-payer system. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders is pushing a $3.5 trillion budget plan that includes expansions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare. Some ...
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Zack Smith – Rogue Prosecutors
Our guest this week is Zack Smith, a legal fellow with the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Zack has been closely watching the growing movement of progressive prosecutors who flout the rule of law. In California, we see this in San Francisco and Los Angeles where ...
Gas-Powered Lawn Equipment Ban Another Major Burden on Minority Entrepreneurs
Not surprisingly, Gov. Newsom signed controversial legislation (Assembly Bill 1346) to ban the sale of gas-powered lawn equipment. The new law will be another costly burden on the estimated nearly 8,300 landscaping businesses in the state, many of whom are minority entrepreneurs. It’s the latest in a series of taxes, ...
Democrats Have Built a Healthcare Agenda Around an Imaginary Crisis
Is America in the midst of a health insurance crisis? That’s the picture Democrats in Washington are painting. According to their narrative, health coverage is out of reach for a number of Americans. Only an aggressive — and exorbitantly expensive — effort to expand the number of people covered by taxpayer-funded insurance ...
The Untold Story of the Unspent Covid Dollars
It was recently uncovered that back in July, Sen. Joe Manchin outlined his views on the $3.5 trillion social spending package in a memo to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. In that document, Manchin specified that no funds should be distributed until after all the money from the $1.9 trillion ...
KFBK Interviews Wayne Winegarden on CA Migrating Study
Pacific Research Institute senior fellow and economist Dr. Wayne Winegarden joined the KFBK Morning News to talk about Tesla’s latest announcement that it’s moving its HQ to Texas and the findings in PRI’s most recent study “California Migrating.” Winegarden and hosts Sam Shane and Cristina Mendonsa talk about reasons for ...
Two Steps in the Right Direction for Free-Market Policy Ideas
2021 can best be described as another year of progressive advancement in the once-Golden State. However, there were some notable free market policy achievements that are worth applauding, specifically two bills signed by Gov. Newsom in recent days. While neither of these bills could truly be described as true policy ...
Bears, Vetoes, and Recalls
What do a man in a bear suit, a recall, and California Governor Gavin Newsom have in common? They are all part of a stranger than fiction story about the latest bill to fall victim to the Governor’s veto pen. This week, Governor Newsom vetoed California Senate Bill 660. Don’t ...
Sunday Morning Newsmakers Features Saving California
Steven Greenhut, editor of the new PRI book “Saving California,” joined Larry Marino on KRLA’s Sunday Morning Newsmakers to talk about the California recall, wildfires, and the many public policy woes facing the state. Greenhut gives a detailed breakdown of the controversy around the Newsom administration’s misstated wildfire prevention efforts ...
Two Years After Voters Said No, Special Interests Try Again to Pass Split Roll
Not quite a year ago, California voters rejected a ballot measure that would have partially unwound Proposition 13, the landmark initiative that set off an “entrepreneurial and commercial explosion” and “a second California gold rush.” Supporters of the “split roll,” a tax regime in which residential properties retain their Prop. ...
Bernie’s Not-So-Subtle Single-Payer Plot
Senator Bernie Sanders (I.,Vt.), America’s most prominent proponent of government-run health care, is once again leading the charge to move our country to a single-payer system. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders is pushing a $3.5 trillion budget plan that includes expansions of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare. Some ...
Zack Smith – Rogue Prosecutors
Our guest this week is Zack Smith, a legal fellow with the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Zack has been closely watching the growing movement of progressive prosecutors who flout the rule of law. In California, we see this in San Francisco and Los Angeles where ...
