by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | CA State Government, Ethical and Efficient Expenditures
The state has more than $64 billion in unfunded pensions, and $22 billion in state employee retiree healthcare obligations above what it can pay. Those numbers are from 2016; they have grown since then. The state appropriates money annually to fund its pension and...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | CA State Government, Ethical and Efficient Expenditures
On June 20, 2017, the Sacramento Bee commented on a State Auditor’s report that had just been released. “The report estimates that the state spent $44 billion on noncompetitive contracts worth $1 million or more between 2011 and 2016, a substantial sum that...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | CA State Government, Economic Opportunity, Energy, Ethical and Efficient Expenditures, Infrastructure
The best job is a permanent job, created in the private sector in a growing California economy. Thus, we should do everything we can to foster an environment in California that will cause jobs to be offered here and to stay here. Many of the proposals made elsewhere...
