Let’s face it, health care in California is a mess. For the average person, buying insurance and accessing care is expensive and confusing. Small business “Why We Shouldn’t Wait on Washington for Better Health Care”
Category: Issues
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The Great Migration Myth
Tell me if you’ve heard this story before: thanks to sky-high housing costs, over-taxation, and/or failed liberal policies, Californians, especially the middle class, are fleeing “The Great Migration Myth”
The California taxpayer’s case for independence
On Tuesday afternoon, Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office cleared the California Freedom Coalition’s initiative, “California Autonomy from Federal Government,” for circulation. If passed, it would direct “The California taxpayer’s case for independence”
LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire
Smaller states overrepresented in Congress tend to lean conservative and Republican and, as big blue states like California grow, the power of smaller counterparts actually increases “LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire”
Representation in the U.S. Senate (Map)
The area of each state on this map shows how much representation in the U.S. Senate the average resident gets. For example, the average Wyomingite “Representation in the U.S. Senate (Map)”
Speaker Rendon’s Bizarre Plan to Kick Single-Payer into the Initiative System
Last Friday, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) announced that he was hitting the pause button on SB 562, a bill to establish a single-payer health “Speaker Rendon’s Bizarre Plan to Kick Single-Payer into the Initiative System”
What a real “Calexit” initiative looks like
In January, I wrote “What a model ‘Calexit’ initiative looks like,” which not only detailed all the problems with Yes California’s “independence plebiscite” initiative, but “What a real “Calexit” initiative looks like”
Initiative 17-0005: California Autonomy from Federal Government
In 2017, current and former board members Timothy Vollmer, Coyote Marin, and Shankar Singam, along with two other people, submitted an initiative entitled “California’s Future: “Initiative 17-0005: California Autonomy from Federal Government”
Why California should pack its bags (even if we’re never going to leave)
Why all Californians should take independence seriously The idea of California as an independent country has been around for a long time, but it’s gotten “Why California should pack its bags (even if we’re never going to leave)”
How any state can declare fiscal independence
This article outlines a simple way that any U.S. state can: control the total amount of taxes (state and federal) that state residents and businesses pay stabilize “How any state can declare fiscal independence”