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Impact - July 2008
7.31.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - July 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Burdening Foundations: Economic Costs of Assembly Bill 624
By: Jason Clemens, Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D., K. Lloyd Billingsley, Adam Frey on 7.25.2008
As California goes, so goes the nation. California is now leading the quest to impose new racial and gender reporting requirements on foundations as well as the charities that receive grants from them and the businesses that work with them.
Impact - June 2008
6.30.2008
PRI Ideas in Action - June 2008
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
Ending the Revenue Rollercoaster - The Benefits of a Three Percent Flat Income Tax for California
By: Robert P. Murphy on 6.1.2008
The PRI flat-tax plan for California will greatly simplify the current tax code. It will completely eliminate the alternative minimum tax, as well as estate, inheritance, and gift taxes.
How a Flat Income Tax Can Help California Avoid Fiscal Crises
By: Robert P. Murphy on 5.7.2008
Californians may have paid their federal and state taxes last month but the Golden State remains in a fiscal crisis with a projected 2008-2009 fiscal year budget deficit as high as $20.2 billion, according to the governor’s estimate on April 29. Such budget crunches hit California because of its highly punitive tax code.
U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D, Hovannes Abramyan on 3.11.2008
The U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report measures the best and worst tort systems in America. The Pacific Research Institute developed the Index as a tool for governors and state legislators to assess their tort systems and to enact laws that will improve the business climates of their states.
Why California's "Budget Wolf" Has Returned
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D on 2.27.2008 3:00:00 PM
SACRAMENTO – On February 16, Governor Schwarzenegger approved the California legislature's plan to deal with the "fiscal emergency" that the governor declared on January 10, two days after he said that the "budget wolf" that California had managed to avoid for two years was now back at the door.
Big Brother Targets Foundations and Nonprofits
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 1.23.2008
SACRAMENTO – Last Tuesday, the Assembly Judicial Committee held a hearing on AB 624, a measure billed as an aid to philanthropy. It's actually a hindrance to philanthropy and is troublesome in many ways.
Continuing property wrongs since Prop 90's defeat
By: Steven Greenhut on 10.15.2007
Usually, when Americans are fleeced by their government, the fleecing comes in the form of wasteful spending programs. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2005 Kelo decision, upholding the “right” of local governments to take property from their current owners and give it to developers in the name of economic development, was perhaps the most massive fleecing Americans have witnessed in a generation.
How to Clean Up California's Pension Mess
By: Matthew C. Piccolo on 8.8.2007
SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento Superior Court judge recently ruled that California must pay a lucrative $6.4 million pension to the heirs of a former state employee who made $22,000 a year. This shocking tale, though unique, is only one part of a complex public pension mess that needs cleaning up.
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