Posts by Take Back San Jose

Kumar on post-election pro-Measure A infighting: “Was this a bait-and-switch?” In a plot twist nobody ordered, Measure A’s biggest cheerleaders can’t seem to agree on how to spend the very money they fought for. Hospitals? Public safety? Something else entirely? “Even the county seems unsure—like a shopper holding a gift card with too many choices.…

John, Donald Trump is heartbroken by what Democrats have done to California… Once the envy of the world, it now feels like something else entirely. Trump has raised a question no one else will ask:  CLICK HERE: Has California become a rogue state? He believes the answer matters — because what starts in California spreads…

This is a warning to us all  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  Here’s the good news: President Trump is the President, Republicans have control of the Senate and Congress, and Democrats are on the defensive. Here’s the bad news: Zohran Mamdani, an extremist, just became the Mayor of New York City (the place that once stood as a monument…

November 14, 2025 Image by Brett VA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Here’s the reality: big business can absorb regulatory time and cost the easiest of all businesses, due to scale. And while the regulations may seem most onerous to small biz, start-ups, it’s really the medium-sized businesses who carry the biggest burden–and get…

November 14, 2025 Image by Jean-François Millet French, around 1856–57 Edward Ring of the California Policy Center explains how hyper-regulation in SV cities and counties favors Big Business, is anti-competitive, and usually ends up hurting low-income residents. The cost-of-living has become a national issue, a favored topic of partisan debate. The debate is governed by…

November 14, 2025 Image by Dawn Hudson Nobody doubts that regulations, when properly constructed, can help implement the laws passed by Congress to improve quality of life and promote competitive and free markets. But too many–and too many poorly formulated–regs can have a chilling effect on growth and innovation. U.S. Chamber of Commerce explores where…

November 14, 2025 Image by George Hodan Local housing providers tell a bracing story regarding how local gov’ts (inc. City of San Jose) impose not only a voluminous array of regulations, but how those regulations make it increasingly impossible to sustain, fund, build, and grow our local housing stock. Which of course leads to increased…

March 20, 2025 Reforming Pensions: A Short Guide, by Nicholas Barr, 2009. Governments can offer retirement plans that don’t require lifer status—the defined benefit pension, after all, shortchanges employees who seek career-mobility. Instead, a defined contribution plan can deliver retirement security while breaking taxpayers out of unfunded liabilities. Reason Foundation’s Zachary Christensen writes how the…

November 11, 2022 The East Bay Times’ Katie Lauer examines California’s pension liability dashboard, in which San Jose is CA’s 2nd worst in funding for existing arrears. Boasting $9.5 billion in accrued pension debt (only $3.6 billion of which is funded), SJ’s economy may face a “looming crisis” barring intervention, says Lauer. After swimming in…

Special Reports November 13, 2025 “We’ve crossed an important threshold,” says 2024 Libertarian VP nominee Mike ter Maat in an Opp Now exclusive Q&A. Even before the federal government misses its first interest payment, borrowing will become much costlier: he says cities in Silicon Valley that rely on credit should act now to avoid financial…