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
CA Democrats Repeating Rent Control Insanity
The definition of insanity is to repeat the same mistake over and over again, while hoping for a different, better outcome. Such is the latest case of the predictable Left, turning once again to another failed sociological experiment — capping or regulating rents artificially, more commonly known as “Rent Control.” Democrats in California are once again... Read More
There is no loophole in Proposition 13
By Jon Coupal and Patricia Bates | For decades, California progressives have complained about a “loophole” in Proposition 13 that unfairly benefits the owners of commercial real estate to the detriment of homeowners. This characterization has been widely accepted by the mainstream media with little critical analysis. There is no loophole in Prop. 13. There is,... Read More
Invalid Property Tax Assessments Remain Unpaid to Thousands of Property Owners in Carmichael
The link to the application for assessment refund: Carmichael-RPD-Asmt-Refund-Application-8-9-16-1 The following is a copy of the letter sent to all Sacramento County Supervisors regarding: Refunds to Carmichael Taxpayers – Sacramento County Taxpayers Association, et al v. County of Sacramento, Carmichael Recreation and Park District, et al, Sacramento Superior Court Case No. 34-2014-80001869. Sacramento County Supervisors... Read More