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☆ Bay Area transit dreams, taxpayers’ nightmare

Transit ridership is limping along--usually below pre-Covid levels--yet Bay Area lawmakers want another half-cent sales...
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☆ Silicon Valley Business Alliance takes on Measure A: SC County’s latest sales tax

Image by Picryl A 5/8 cent sales tax might not seem like much, but it’s...
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☆ Silicon Valley Business Alliance takes on Measure A: SC County’s latest sales tax

Image by Picryl A 5/8 cent sales tax might not seem like much, but it’s...
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☆ How to fix the Valley’s home insurance inflation (and make life way more affordable)

Could CA’s skyrocketing costs to insure a home ever, you know, go down? According to...
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☆ Did SC County Supes try to deceive voters into a tax hike?

“Tax Return - 1040” by 401(K) 2012, CC BY-SA 2.0 “It was prejudicial and misleading,”...
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Long Story Short…

Here’s what you need to know this week — in 30 seconds or less: A...

☆ Rishi Kumar on the question: will Santa Clara County’s Measure A sales tax ever go away?

“Personal Income Taxes Ver3” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 County residents are promised that...
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☆ Santa Clara County wants a 5/8-cent sales tax. Will that cover public health losses of $3 billion per year?

“Personal Income Taxes Ver8” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 Santa Clara County’s public health...
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☆ Santa Clara County wants a 5/8-cent sales tax. Will that cover public health losses of $3 billion per year?

“Personal Income Taxes Ver8” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 Santa Clara County’s public health...

Economists agree rent control doesn’t work; California passes sweeping rent control ordinance anyways

Despite a broad consensus among economists and overwhelming evidence that rent control actually makes housing...