The California Citizens Compensation Commission, which is appointed by the governor, voted 4 to 0 on Tuesday to approve the 4.2% pay hikes for state elected officials.
Now, in
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assoc. v. CalSavers
Program, the Ninth Circuit has again found no
preemption. The issue was whether a California law, like
those of six other States (and Seattle and New York City),
see
generally
The Big Apple Joins a Small Crowd, With Possible Headaches for
Local Employers | Beneficially Yours, mandates private
sector employers, which choose not to establish an ERISA plan, to
contribute employee wages to the state to provide pension
benefits. The court found no preemption because the
contributed money becomes a state, not an ERISA, plan
benefit. It is of no moment, the court said, that the
May 17, 2021 05:35 pm
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Despite more than $100 billion of new money to spend this year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom still wants to take more than $12 billion from the state’s primary savings account and other sources to increase state spending, according to an independent review of the governor’s proposal released Monday.
California has so much money that it took Newsom a full week to explain how he wants to spend all of it, culminating in Friday’s budget announcement where he presented his plan, including 400 new spending proposals, to the state Legislature.
Newsom said his spending spree was made possible by $76 billion in new state money plus an additional $27 billion in federal coronavirus aid from Congress. He announced taxpayers would be getting $8.1 billion in rebates, plus the state would eventually let every 4-year-old go to kindergarten for free.
California now has $75.7 billion more than initially predicted
–Back in the 1970s, anti-tax advocates passed an amendment to California’s constitution designed to put the state government on a diet.
Four decades later, Gov. Gavin Newsom is now proposing to use that same policy tool beloved by small
–government conservatives to rechannel billions of dollars collected primarily from the Golden State’s highest earners to working and middle
–class Californians, families with children and undocumented immigrants.
A stroke of political genius? An abuse of the law? The world’s most expensive partisan troll?
Potentially all of the above.
To understand how Newsom, who faces an almost-certain recall election later this year, now finds himself in the happy position of being able to dole out billions of dollars to taxpayers and possible voters, here’s a quick primer on the 2021 budget:
Facing Recall, Newsom Uses Anti-Tax Amendment for His Own Devices
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveils his economic stimulus plan at an event in Oakland yesterday. Still from YouTube video.
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Back in the 1970s, anti-tax advocates passed an amendment to California’s constitution designed to put the state government on a diet.
Four decades later, Gov. Gavin Newsom is now proposing to use that same policy tool beloved by small
–government conservatives to rechannel billions of dollars collected primarily from the Golden State’s highest earners to working and middle
–class Californians, families with children and undocumented immigrants.
A stroke of political genius? An abuse of the law? The world’s most expensive partisan troll?