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One Ballot Measure Extends California's Taxing Power. Another Limits It. Stay Tuned.
Californians will face two competing tax measures this November. The first is the Billionaire Tax Act, a onetime, 5% levy on the accumulated net worth of the state's richest residents. Lesser known is the Retirement and Personal Savings Protection Act, which would draw constitutional lines around what Sacramento can and cannot tax, prohibiting new… |
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On Income Taxes, Missouri and Washington Represent Clear Contrast for Citizens and Businesses
“We should not carry a banner of pale pastels but of bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand...”
In our politically polarized era, when so many voices advocate greater moderation and centrism, Ronald Reagan’s words remind us that sharp distinctions serve an important purpose in exposing the merits… |
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Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez – the famous UC Berkeley economist who's considered an architect of California's proposed billionaire wealth tax – is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not… |
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Stripping the Dying of Their Assets: Mamdani's Latest Proposal
If New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani gets his way, half of everything New Yorkers work a lifetime for – including their homes, their businesses or farms and their savings – could be stripped away on their deathbeds.
No more Empire State; he'd make it the Expropriation State.
Only one thing in life is certain: We all… |
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Blue-State Suicide
It's not just California and New York. All across the nation, blue states are committing political and economic suicide by targeting millionaires with high taxes. Who will suffer most from this misguided, ideologically driven push to punish the wealthy? Wage workers and the poor.
Leftist Democratic pols calling for states to tax the rich are ignoring… |
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Phasing Out State Income Tax Key to Success in Dying Blue States
Across the nation, states are fiercely competing for companies and population by slashing taxes.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is dooming her state to be the loser.
In 2026, eight states are cutting their income taxes, and four others are reducing corporate tax rates.
South Carolina is pushing ahead on legislation to phase out its income tax entirely… |
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Property Tax Revolt Exploding Across U.S.
"Affordability" is the Democrats' battle cry to win elections these days. But Republicans are ready to flip the script to woo homeowners, who make up the majority (65%) of American households.
Across the nation, these homeowners are angry and ready to fight against soaring property taxes. Their homes have appreciated, but they don't have… |
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Put That Smile to Work, Mr. Mayor
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's smile carried him a long way toward being elected. And he used his affability again on Friday, turning the meeting he had requested with President Donald Trump into an Oval Office lovefest.
Now it's time for the mayor-elect to employ the power of smiling to make day-to-day life better for New Yorkers when… |
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Beware Housing Bills With Socialist Goals
The Democrats' lurch to the extreme left is accelerating at warp speed – and Connecticut is the latest victim.
The state legislature's Democratic supermajority last week rammed through a bill, HB 8002, that's a thinly disguised socialist wishlist.
Cynically couched as a remedy for the affordable housing crisis, its real purpose is… |
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Voters in New York and California Personify the Definition of “Insanity”
Although the legal and clinical definitions may differ, popular conception defines “insanity” as repeating the same behavior and expecting different results.
By that definition, leftist voters in New York City, California and elsewhere recertified themselves as insane last week.
Year after year, election after… |
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Mamdani Win Will Ravage Entire State
Zohran Mamdani's win Tuesday should send tremors far beyond New York City. A Mamdani victory will ignite wholesale legislative attacks on property owners, charter schools, law enforcement and businesses all across New York state. From Buffalo to Amagansett, nothing will be spared.
In New York, the big decisions about criminal law, education, rent… |
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How Albany Can Stop Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor and implements the changes he is promising, expect the city's financial condition and public safety to deteriorate rapidly. Think criminal bedlam, antisemitic rioters allowed full rein, and cutbacks to basic city services.
In such a crisis, desperate New Yorkers will look to Albany, where the governor has virtually… |
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Democrats Would Rather Embrace Crime Than Prevent It
Pro-crime Democrats are propelling New York toward anarchy and financial ruin.
The seven candidates vying for the Democratic nomination for Gotham's mayor unanimously oppose increasing penalties for farebeaters. That includes frontrunners Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani. Their refusal to crack down on farebeaters – all by itself … |
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The Democrats' War on Small-Town Values and Property Values
Across the U.S., Democrats are waging war to crush a lifestyle they abhor. Call it small-town America: single-family neighborhoods, quiet streets, town centers stamped with their own historic character, and almost no signs of the vagrancy and homeless encampments that plague cities.
Democrats want you to have none of this. If you've worked for years… |
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New York in Danger of Being Steamrolled by the Rent-Freeze Voting Bloc and Pandering Pols
Left-wing mayoral candidates and a newly launched "housing justice" group are promising a multiyear rent freeze on the city's nearly 1 million rent-regulated units. That's more than half the rental apartments in Gotham. It's a cynical political strategy: Pander to a block of single-issue voters almost too large to resist – … |
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New York City Faces the Threat of an Antisemitic Mayor
The surest way to trigger the collapse of New York City is to elect an antisemitic mayor.
Throughout history, rising antisemitism is a bellwether of societal ruin: When attacks on Jews are tolerated or encouraged, the dissolution of everyone's rights and the abandonment of basic freedoms follow.
See the Spanish Inquisition, Nazi Germany and the Soviet… |
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New York's Budget: Highway Robbery
New Yorkers are getting robbed blind.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state's two legislative leaders announced a budget deal Monday night on how much to tax New Yorkers and how much the state government will spend in the coming fiscal year, which starts June 1.
From the smattering of information available, it's likely this deal will necessitate additional… |
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The Illegal Aid Society Is Making New York Unsafe
You know the adage, "Don't shoot yourself in the foot"? That's exactly what New Yorkers are doing by pouring their tax dollars into the Legal Aid Society. It should be called the Illegal Aid Society. It's 99% publicly funded – with your state and local tax dollars – and its chief business is litigating and… |
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In New York, the Inmates Are in Charge
Convicted cop killers should never walk free. But New York's soft-on-crime parole board is poised to release its 44th cop killer since 2017.
For this injustice, you can blame mayoral wannabee Andrew Cuomo and his criminal-coddling successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Also to blame is a network of George Soros-funded pro-crime advocacy groups &ndash… |
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New Legal Analysis Supports Constitutionality of Innovative Policing Technologies Helping Solve Crimes in America
"When appropriate guardrails are in place, License Plate Reader (LPR) technology does not violate Fourth Amendment rights and is a valuable tool for making our communities safer."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) released a new primer analyzing the legal basis behind law enforcement&rsquo… |
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Virginia S.B. 1252 Would Punish the Consumers It Claims to Help
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
Ronald Reagan’s quip remains among his most celebrated for good reason: Interventionist efforts by government bureaucrats tend to harm their supposed beneficiaries more than they help.&… |
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Cuomo – Too Corrupt for New York City
How good are voters' memories? The outcome of the New York City mayoral election may hinge on how much they remember of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's corruption-filled past.
Cuomo is hoping to rewrite his own history and run for mayor. He got a boost Monday when a key Democrat, Rep. Ritchie Torres, called on Cuomo to join the race. "The city is… |
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CFIF Urges Nebraska Lawmakers to Reject New Taxes on Delivery Services
August 7, 2024
The Honorable John Arch
Speaker of the Legislature
Room 2103
P.O. Box 94604
Lincoln, NE 68509
The Honorable Lou Ann Linehan
Chair, Revenue Committee
Nebraska State Legislature
Room 1116, State Capitol
1445 K Street
Lincoln, NE 68508
Dear Speaker Arch and Chair Aguilar: … |
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Michigan Takes a U-Turn Back to the Rust Belt
No state in modern times has transitioned from a worker freedom state to one that forces workers to join a union and pay dues to labor bosses. All the momentum across the country in the last two decades has been in the opposite direction: allowing workers the right to choose a union – or not.
That's why what happened last week… |
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Blue States Just Can't Stop Taxing
The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in America should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities. The Census data provide even further evidence that "soak the rich" tax policies have incited a blue-state meltdown.
California, New York and Illinois all lost the most population last year. These states… |
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New York's Crisis Is a Lesson For Cities Everywhere
When New Yorkers complain about announced cuts to police protection and sanitation, Mayor Eric Adams weasels back, "Don't yell at me, yell at D.C." Adams is trying to shift the blame to President Joe Biden and the Democrats' open-border policy. Don't fall for it. The surge of migrants accounts for less than half (42%) of the city's looming… |
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Blue City Decline: How to Save New York and Other Cities
New York City residents have thrown in the towel. Gotham's quality of life is plunging, but only 11% of registered voters turned out in last Tuesday's local election. Nearly all incumbent members of the New York City Council skated to reelection.
New Yorkers are voting with their feet, abandoning the city instead of going to the polls to demand… |
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California’s A.B. 257 Targets the Working Class… Where They Eat
We’ve reached a point when leftist politicians openly sacrifice the working class in furtherance of their partisan agenda, a downward class warfare.
This week, Joe Biden finally ended months of speculation by announcing a student loan bailout for borrowers earning up to $125,000 annually. For perspective, $125,000 puts someone… |
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Liberal Brookings Institution Study: Red States Recover, Blue States Stagnate
Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, Audacity, from head to foot.
– William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline” (1611)
It’s unlikely that California Governor Gavin Newsom, still reeling from a humiliating voter recall and rolling disintegration of the state he governs, had those words of the deceptive character Iachimo from Shakespeare&rsquo… |
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The Texas Democrats' Farce Continues
Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin, headed for Washington, D.C. Their purpose was to stop a Republican elections bill they characterized as "Jim Crow 2.0" by fleeing the state and thus denying the legislature a quorum.
Now it's been a month. It's tough to be away from… |
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