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California never had a free market power failure

California’s experiment in free market power generation has become mythological in how it is remembered. The left is desperate to tar it as a free market failure. But California’s experiment wasn’t free market. It was a massive government-managed exchange practically designed to cause high prices.

Can Californians drink a train?

The meme goes that even if we’re wrong about global warming, the money spent will still make the world a better place. That is only true if you can drink a high-speed train.

California threatens Amazon, kills affiliate programs

By this time, California had to know that its new law would not bring in new tax revenue. The tax headaches aren’t worth the trouble of maintaining affiliate programs. The only reason to pass the law was to kill affiliate programs at places like Amazon and Overstock. I don’t understand; what is it about affiliate programs that states don’t like?

Tax event horizon

How close are we to a tax event horizon, where so many people’s income depends on complicated tax laws that they can never be reformed?

Sometimes you wonder, other times you expunge the vote

California state assembly so proud of vote they… erase it from the public record.

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