by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity
Government picking winners in private industry, on the assumed basis of their environmental benefits, is open to great misjudgment. The federal government’s waste of $535 million on a single company, Solyndra, is hard to refute. When government gives money to...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity
Minimum wage laws in California exceed the national minimum wage. When government increases the minimum wage, some workers lose their jobs. Employers automate. Suppose we didn’t make employers pay the higher wage, but used the general tax base to plus-up the wages of...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity, Safety and Welfare, Welfare
Affordable housing is very scarce in most of California. This is an issue of huge economic importance to our state. If young families cannot afford to live in California, our state’s outward migration will be exacerbated, and our competitiveness diminished. From a...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity
1) Unless employees by secret ballot vote to the contrary, time-and-a-half must be paid for hourly-wage employees in California who work more than 8 hours a day. Federal law requires the same after 40 hours a week. The difference penalizes California employers and...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity
Except in the case of emergency of health or safety, California should issue no new regulations without conducting an analysis that California needs to exceed whatever federal standards exist in the relevant issue, and whether the cost of California doing so,...
by Tom Campbell | Feb 5, 2025 | Business and Competition, Economic Opportunity
Since it started ranking states as the best and worst for doing business in 2006, up until the most recent measure, Chief Executive Magazine has placed California at the single worst, #50, for every year. This is an abominable record. It advertises that our state is...
