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Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote
I’ve already had a couple of blog posts commenting on how Texas is kicking California’s you-know-what. Being a fiscal policy person, I always point to California’s punitive state income tax as an...
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From East Coast to West Coast, Bureaucrats Are Ripping Off Taxpayers
Let’s start in Washington, where USA Today reports that there are “at least 17,828 federal employees whose annualized salaries totaled $180,000 or more in September 2010.” That’s rather distressing...
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The Diversity Racket in California: Good for Bureaucrats, Bad for Education
Walter Williams has pointed out on many occasions that many government programs and initiatives exist primarily for the benefit of the bureaucracy, and he coined the phrase “poverty pimps” to describe...
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R-Rated Schwarenegger Humor
I’m making the image a thumbnail, so click at your own risk. You have only yourself to blame if you’re offended by juvenile humor.
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Crazy California Politicians Want to Regulate Babysitting
I’ve had several reasons to mock California in the past couple of years (see here, here, here, and here). But I never thought state politicians would be crazy enough to impose harsh regulations on...
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California’s Top-One-Percent Bureaucrats
Every so often (about 362 days per year), I come to the conclusion that government is a racket for the benefit of special interests. Greece would be an example. And if we limit ourselves to the United...
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Will the Last Job Creator to Leave California Please Turn Off the Lights?
I’ve written before about whether California is the Greece of America, in part because of crazy policies such as overpaid bureaucrats and expensive forms of political correctness, And we all know that...
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Two Very Good Political Cartoons
I’ve recently become a fan of Lisa Benson’s cartoons (see here, here and here), and this may be her best piece of work. My only quibble is that there should be an elephant somewhere on the wagon since...
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The Octo-Moocher
I’ve complained about food stamp abuse on several occasions, including people using them to buy luxury coffee at Starbucks and to buy steaks and lobster. I’ve groused about college kids scamming the...
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Comparing Obamanomics with Reaganomics, Looking at Evidence from the States
I’ve done a couple of posts comparing Reaganomics and Obamanomics, mostly based on data from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve on employment and economic output. I even did a TV interview on the subject,...
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California Is the Canary in the Class-Warfare Coal Mine
President Obama’s fiscal policy is a dismal mixture. On spending, he wants a European-style welfare state. On taxes, he is fixated on class-warfare tax policy. If we want to know the consequences of...
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California’s Train to Nowhere
I’ve explained before that “high-speed rail” is a boondoggle, and I’ve also posted a thorough presentation on the topic from the folks at Reason about this issue. But some politicians can’t resist...
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Predicting the November Election (along with Thoughts on Wisconsin and...
Since I’m a policy wonk and not a political prognosticator, I’m not sure why people keep asking me what will happen in the November elections. But since I got lucky with my 2010 predictions, I may as...
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Archaeologists from the 22nd Century Ponder the Death of California
Even though Chuck Asay is one of my favorite cartoonists (see here, here, here, here, and here), I was not a big fan of one of his recent two-frame cartoons. But he has more than made up for that...
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California’s Fiscal Policy and the Lesson of Humpty Dumpty
I’ve almost exhausted my interest in California’s suicidal fiscal policy. How many times, after all, can you write about politicians over-taxing and over-spending to the point of economic ruin? But...
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Amusing California Satire by Walter Williams, but What if Gov. Brown Takes It...
I periodically mock the crazy statists of California. The state is almost surely doomed to suffer a Greek-style fiscal chaos. The only unknown is whether Illinois will beat the Golden State into...
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The $822,000-per-Year Bureaucrat and the Death of California
Over the years, I’ve shared some outrageous examples of overpaid bureaucrats. The chief bureaucrat of a low-income California city getting almost $800,000 per year. Cops in Oakland getting average...
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The Continuing Exodus of Jobs – and Taxable Income – from California
Like most people, I’m a sucker for a heartwarming story around the holidays. Sometimes, you get that nice feeling when good things happen to good people, like you find at the end of a classic movie...
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Just Because California Is Terrible, that Doesn’t Mean Texas Is Perfect
Texas is in much better shape than California. Taxes are lower, in part because Texas has no state income tax. No wonder the Lone Star State is growing faster and creating more jobs. And the gap will...
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California’s One-Man Laffer Curve
I’ve already condemned the foolish people of California for approving a referendum to raise the state’s top tax rate to 13.3 percent. This impulsive and misguided exercise in class warfare surely will...
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