East Bay Conservative

Back from an oh-so-brief brief respite from the Bay Area lunacy, I immediately noticed that our Assembly speaker claims to want to “solve” the state’s chronically unbalanced budget by reviewing the tax system.

When I first read the headlines about this suggestion, I became somewhat excited, thinking maybe people were coming to grips with the harm done to California’s economy by its ridiculously high tax rates of all stripes.
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Apparently, Mayor Dellums decided he didn’t want to allow Oakland City Manager Deborah Edgerly to delay her retirement. The Oakland Tribune is reporting he fired her today.

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I’m sure most EBC readers don’t spend much time reading about Nevada politics. But if you did, you’d know that, like California, Nevada faces a budget crunch, and its legislature held a special session last weekend to resolve things.

California could learn a lot from the way Nevada handles these things. In short, they cut. A lot. And they balanced their budget.

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