How California Has Destroyed Its Middle Class

By Edward Ring
05/30/2025
California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model on the rest of America. It’s a quasi-feudal system, with the entire population divided into aristocrats and serfs. The means to destroy the middle class is to engineer an...

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Unaffordable California – It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

By Richard Rider
12/29/2014
December 2014 Update:  Here’s a documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is bad, and getting worse. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The state and local government policies that created an unaffordable California can be reversed. PERSONAL INCOME TAX:  Prior to Prop 30...

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Unaffordable California – It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way

By Richard Rider
07/18/2014
July 2014 Update:  Here’s a documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is bad, and getting worse. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The state and local government policies that created an unaffordable California can be reversed: PERSONAL INCOME TAX:  Prior to Prop 30 passing in...

TAGS: California business tax climate, California energy costs, California gas taxes, California housing costs, California legal environment, California personal income tax, California property tax rate, California sales taxes, California tax rate, California unemployment, California welfare and poverty

Unaffordable California – It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

By Richard Rider
04/09/2014
April 2014 Update:  Here’s a documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is bad, and getting worse. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The state and local government policies that created an unaffordable California can be reversed: PERSONAL INCOME TAX:  Prior to Prop 30 passing in...

TAGS: California business tax climate, California energy costs, California gas taxes, California housing costs, California legal environment, California personal income tax, California property tax rate, California sales taxes, California tax rate, California unemployment, California welfare and poverty

Unaffordable California – It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

By Richard Rider
01/10/2014
January 2014 Update:  Here’s a documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is bad, and getting worse. But it doesn’t have to be this way! The state and local government policies that created an unaffordable California can be reversed: PERSONAL INCOME TAX:  Prior to Prop 30...

TAGS: California business tax climate, California energy costs, California gas taxes, California housing costs, California legal environment, California personal income tax, California property tax rate, California sales taxes, California tax rate, California unemployment, California welfare and poverty

Unaffordable California – It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

By Richard Rider
10/23/2013
Here’s a documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states. The news is bad, and getting worse. But the state and local government policies that created an unaffordable California can be reversed: PERSONAL INCOME TAX:  Prior to Prop 30 passing in Nov. 2012, CA already had the 3rd worst...

TAGS: California business tax climate, California energy costs, California gas taxes, California housing costs, California legal environment, California personal income tax, California property tax rate, California sales taxes, California tax rate, California unemployment, California welfare and poverty