Category: taxes

By Donna Westfall – September 3, 2025 Ever since Prop 13 came into existence, our mostly Democrat politicians and liberal judges have been trying to do an end run. 65% of the voters approved Prop 13 back in 1978. Prior to that, property taxes were high and going higher. Voters said, “NO!” “NO MORE!” Well,…

By Jon Coupal Democrats in the Legislature are spending their first week back from summer recess frantically redrawing the state’s congressional maps in response to redistricting efforts in Texas. They claim they are doing it to “protect democracy.” “We are trying to defend democracy as opposed to see it destroyed district by district,” Gov. Gavin…

Both parties continue to play soccer with the proverbial can  By Jon Coupal – July 15, 2025 The guiding philosophy at all levels of politics is “never face today what you can put off to tomorrow.” This is even true for matters that require immediate attention. Most politicians are, by nature, risk adverse, worried more about…

By Jon Coupal – July 1, 2025 On June 6th, 1978, California voters delivered a shock wave, not just in California, but throughout America. Proposition 13 reduced property taxes by more than half and imposed other restrictions on government’s ability to extract money from citizens and businesses. Despite Prop. 13’s victory with 64.8 percent of…

By Jon Coupal From the perspective of taxpayers, this month was most notable for the April 15th deadline for filing state and local income tax returns. But just two weeks earlier, many California consumers also had the privilege of paying higher sales taxes.  Although Californians pay sales taxes daily on their retail purchases, it can…

By Carl DeMaio, Reform California – April 2, 2025 California’s greedy politicians have already imposed the highest GAS TAX and CAR TAX in the nation on drivers, and now they want to impose a new MILEAGE TAX to charge us PER MILE we drive to get more of our money!” warns CA State Rep. Carl…

By Jon Coupal – March 31, 2025 As a homeowner, you dutifully pay your property taxes every year, no matter how painful. Notwithstanding Proposition 13’s tax limitations, California is not a low property tax state. According to the Tax Foundation, we rank 18th out of 50 states in per capita property tax collections. But it…

Opinion and Commentary – January 31, 2025 Who knew that in the history of this country there were actually periods during our 250 year history that citizens were not taxed? How was that possible? Credit to the Ronald Reagan Library for this explanation: “Before an income tax was established, the majority of funds given to…