Capital gains tax: Another hit to homeowners
A new problem is beginning to emerge that will surprise many homeowners when they sell their primary residences
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Jon Coupal: Gavin Newsom’s seriously unserious budget proposal
There’s nothing fair about it. They have the party and taxpayers get the hangover.
Jon Coupal: the Save Proposition 13 Act of 2026
Taxpayers are fighting back.
Jon Coupal: The lamest excuse for perpetuating the high-speed rail project
The governor and the backers of HSR are willfully ignorant of how their toxic embrace of the sunk cost fallacy is harming California.
Did they forget the pension crisis?
If an 8-year-old can learn from his mistakes, why can’t legislators?
Sales tax increases slam the middle class in California
It would be a mistake to acquiesce to higher sales taxes without a great deal of scrutiny.
Jon Coupal: Proposition 13 protects home equity
Assuming a state decides to retain a property tax at all – and some states are planning full repeals – a system like Prop. 13 provides stability to both property...
Sacramento consistently fails to consider the long-term consequences
These failures in governance have one thing in common – the absence of serious consideration of present realities or downstream effects.
Homeowners beware: How transfer taxes steal your equity
There are very powerful progressive interests which intend to impose transfer taxes at a level to completely “recover” all the taxes that were not owed by homeowners because of Prop....
Opinion: How property owners can block city’s new trash fee
San Diego’s proposed trash fee is currently a hot topic for city property owners as city leaders plan community meetings over the next several weeks to explain the fee and...
Is it the end of the line for California’s high speed rail project?
California taxpayers will be watching to see if HSR’s special interest ers try to repurpose other state funds to keep the high-speed rail project on life .
California no supera la prueba de “estado nación”
: “¿Debería California dejar los Estados Unidos y convertirse en un país libre e independiente?”
California fails the ‘nation state’ test
A ballot initiative asking Californians if they would like to secede from the United States was cleared to gather signatures late last month.
Jon Coupal: New laws coming in the new year Californians need to know about
Was it all bad news from your California government this year?
DOGE presents a chance to finally pull the plug on California’s high speed rail boondoggle
Now is the perfect time to finally pull the plug on California’s embarrassing boondoggle.
Jon Coupal: The Gann Limit is back in the news
California taxpayers need something more than a rainy day fund that’s all slush.
California taxpayers need protection from Newsom, not from Trump
There appears to be no limit to the hubris of Governor Gavin Newsom.
California homeowners should read their tax bill before before voting
The question that bears repeating is what have our politicians and bureaucrats done to prove that they need more?
California’s financial state deteriorates as officials slack on making financial data public
Please, let’s cue Jack Nicholson: “You can’t handle the truth.”
Opinion: No on Proposition 4. Too much debt and not enough ability.
What’s worse than reckless spending of your tax dollars? Reckless spending of your tax dollars on a credit card. Proposition 4 would rack up another $10 billion of state debt...
Overtaxed Californians face hundreds of poorly-justified tax hike and bond measures
That is reason enough to reject most, if not all, tax and bond measures this November.
No on Prop. 13 – school bond measure means higher property taxes for homeowners
By now, most California voters have received their ballot pamphlets for next month’s election. Some may be confused to see that they are being asked to vote on “Proposition 13.”...