Month: November 2014

November 4, 2014 0

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November 3, 2014 0

166 Local Tax Increase Proposals on California Ballots; Not For the Kids

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Jon Coupal, October 26, 2014, HJTA California Commentary If that isn’t plain enough – here’s a restatement: California’s politicians can ask voters to approve bonds, announcing the funds will be used for a specific purpose, then they can turn around and do anything they want with the money. And while there’s been a lot of coverage and debate over big statewide bond votes, the real money is in the countless local bond issues that collectively now encumber California’s taxpayers with well over $250 billion in debt . Over the past few weeks we’ve tried to point out that local tax increases – 166 of them on the November 4th ballot at last count, tend to be calibrated to raise an amount of new tax revenue that, in too many cases, are suspiciously equal to the amount that pension contributions are going to be raised over the next few years.

November 3, 2014 0

Cameron’s Lies Reach "Point of No Return" Warning From Merkel; Chameleon Politics

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And without using the word lie, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned UK could leave EU if David Cameron insists on migrant quotas . Germany would be prepared to accept that Britain will have to leave the European Union if David Cameron insists on restricting the number of immigrants from the bloc who can live and work in the UK. Mr Cameron’s bid to curb levels of migration from the EU is taking Britain to a “point of no returnâ€, according to Der Spiegel.