New Proposed Garbage Rate Hike
Credited To FOON RHEE Sacramento News & Review A proposed garbage rate hike would be third this decade to hit Sacramento homeowners We tend to take garbage collection for granted, except when a pickup is missed—or when our bill goes up. So at the public hearing on Aug. 28 before the Utilities Rate Advisory Commission, chances... Read More
Taxpayers Bootcamp!
The Sacramento Taxpayers Association is proud to present our first ever Taxpayers Bootcamp to give the general public the ability to Advocate, Educate and Support the importance of fiscal discipline within our state! Things which will be covered are: Board Agendas, Researching, Public Records Act, Ralph M Brown Act, Etc The event is on August... Read More
Democrats get SLAPP’d for First Amendment violation
Credits to: Jon Coupal Jul 21, 2019 Democrats get SLAPP’d for First Amendment violation Democrats pay lip service to the First Amendment and claim to encourage political engagement but, in reality, their desire is to silence all views but their own. Last week, a Court of Appeal made them pay for their hypocrisy. In 2017, one... Read More
News of SacRT General Manager Awarded for Defending Taxpayer Funds on Carmichael Times
SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) – The Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT) recently announced that General Manager/CEO Henry Li received the first annual Good Governance Award from the Sacramento Taxpayers Association for Outstanding Leadership in Defending Taxpayer Funds. “Since I began with SacRT three years ago, I have pushed to get the district back on track... Read More
Join The Sacramento Taxpayers Assoc. Event Featuring Randall O’Toole Transportation Expert, Author
The Sacramento Taxpayers Association is hosting a event free to the public featuring Randal O’Toole, author of “Romance of the Rails: Why the Passenger Trains We Love Are Not the Transportation We Need.” Randal’s book and important information is sure to help in any future fights against the Sacramento Streetcar, High Speed Rail, as well as... Read More
Sacramento’s Measure U Tax Increase is a Slush Fund For Greedy Politicians
Sacramento voters are once again faced with tax increases on the November ballot because Mayor Darrell Steinberg and most of the members of City Council can’t or won’t be honest about their gross spending and particular taste for other people’s money. So here we are again, solving Sacramento’s latest budget/spending crisis with hefty tax increases.... Read More
Sen. John MOORLACH Federal/State Races Voter Guide
Below is Sen. John Moorlach’s Voter Guide for the Federal Congressional, State Senate, Assembly, Judicial races. With the top two rule, there is one race with no Republicans. Democrats have one asterisk and Libertarians have three (also see MOORLACH CAMPAIGN UPDATE — Statewide Voter Guide — September 24, 2018). For the judicial portion of the ballot, I... Read More
STA Opposes Proposed Citywide PLA Mandate
Dear Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Sacramento City Council members Hansen, Ashby, Harris, Schenirer, Carr, Guerra, Warren, & Jennings: I am writing to you to strongly urge you to defer action on the proposed citywide Project Labor Agreement mandate in order to give the public and community groups a chance to weigh in. As taxpayers, the... Read More
Sen. Moorlach’s June Primary Voter’s Guide
Senator John Moorlach, R-Costa Mesa, our SacTax keynote speaker at our annual dinner and Golden Fleece Awards in April, offers up his recommendations in the upcoming June Primary election (graphic is Sen. Moorlach’s picks). PROPOSITION 69 http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/pdf/69-arg-rebuttals.pdf ★ ARGUMENT AGAINST PROPOSITION 69 ★ How insulting can a ballot proposition be? Last year, a two-thirds majority of... Read More
Rent-control initiative could obliterate state housing markets
By STEVEN GREENHUT | Orange County Register SACRAMENTO — “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city — except for bombing,” opined Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck. He’s right on target given that rent control destroys housing markets because it takes away the incentive to build new apartments,... Read More