[But in the battle of ideas, public interest lobbyist and frequent Uhler adversary Lenny Goldberg described his conservative opponent as] a very sincere guy, ... is a recipe for the deterioration of California. |
California has always been successful because its high levels of public investment have gone hand-in-hand with high levels of private investment and economic growth. We're never going to be a low-wage, low-cost state. So we need to be a high-productivity state, and that involves substantial investments in education and infrastructure. |
I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult. |
It's going to be rewarding activity that's already taking place in California ... so there is nothing but revenue being given away, |
The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system. |
These vetoes basically say to these people that they can flout the law without repercussions, ... Ordinary taxpayers can't do that. |
Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings. |