MAKE CALIFORNIA COUNT IN 2008

SUPPORT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REFORM ACT (PERA)

Not since the Reagan era has California provided electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate.  That can be changed in 2008, but not without the help of those who abhor the thought of another Clinton presidency. 

PERA would allow California to cast its 55 electoral votes in 2008 based on the candidate who wins a majority of the popular vote in each of the state’s 53 congressional districts, plus two votes would be awarded to the statewide winner.

We know how powerful this initiative will be precisely because of the anger and outrage it has stirred among the liberal leaders and pundits (see attached New York Times Op Ed).  Signature gathering on the initiative petition has just commenced, and approximately 75,000 signatures have been collected to date.  In response, California Democratic Party Chair Art Torres has announced that he is organizing ”volunteers“ to harass signature gatherers at street corners and shopping malls where the approximately 700,000 needed signatures are normally gathered. 

The new secret weapon for signatures is the petition that can be distributed by email, downloaded and returned to us by regular mail.  The recall of Governor Gray Davis several years ago demonstrated the power of this technique which has since been refined.

WE HAVE A CHANCE TO MAKE CALIFORNIA COUNT IN 2008.  SUPPORT A FAIR SYSTEM BY SIGNING THE PETITION TO QUALIFY THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REFORM ACT INTITIATIVE.

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Help Us Continue to Fight to Make California Count!

The National Tax Limitation Committee (NTLC) was organized in 1975. Its mission has been:

To make structural changes in fiscal and governance practices at all levels of government, and to limit and control taxes and spending, so as to enhance the power and freedom of individuals and their enterprises.

Not since the Reagan era has California provided electoral votes to a Republican presidential candidate.  That can be changed in 2008, but not without the help of those who abhor the thought of another Clinton presidency. 

A California initiative has been prepared for the June 2008 ballot that would change the allocation of electoral votes in California from winner-take-all to one based on the vote in each congressional district.

Uhler and NTLC joined with the Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum in 1990 to sponsor the pioneering Proposition 140 – term limits for California legislators and constitutional officers.  This movement has spread nationwide under the guidance of US Term Limits.

A term limits measure awaiting voters on the Feb. 5 ballot represents "cynical and corrupt" politics.  It's an attempt to fool the voters using their support for term limits into actually trying to trick them into weakening term limits.

A NEW POLITICAL PARADIGM: AN ”OPTIMAL-SIZED“ GOVERNMENT

The moment of truth on outlay increases for baby-boomers is now upon us.  We must increase the size of the Nation’s economic ”pie“ quickly and substantially to meet the demands of 78 million baby-boomers while we also keep faith with future generations.  Right now the marginal cost to the economy of raising the next dollar of taxes is very dear.  It costs us about $2.75 in economic growth for every dollar of new tax revenue we try to generate.

Government programs, actions, earmarks, etc., are becoming increasingly transparent to taxpayers through the Internet, so that elected and appointed officials’ spending decisions are public knowledge – they can’t hide...more...

NTLC was actively involved in the 2005 campaign for Proposition 75 (in California’s special election), which sought to give public employees the freedom to choose whether a portion of their union dues could be used for political purposes.  The measure lost narrowly but remains on NTLC’s agenda.  A pending US Supreme Court case arising out of the State of Washington could help clarify the law on this issue.

Shall we again go with Prop. 75 – or some variation – to end involuntary political contributions by our public employees? 

California legislators are looking for solutions to supply problems after drought, Delta court ruling

California seeks a long-term solution to the state's water needs and addresses the more immediate crisis stemming from a federal court ruling this month. That ruling could cut water deliveries to Southern California from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta by one-third to address environmental issues related to protection of the threatened delta smelt.

The death tax is the most hated tax in the federal system. Polls consistently reveal that. And there is a very good reason - people have been taxed all their lives. It is an insult to tax them at death.

The Death Tax produces less than 1% of federal revenues, but does tremendous damage to economic growth in the nation. It is estimated to cost far more in compliance and tax avoidance schemes than it produces for the US Treasury. 

There is a very dangerous measure making its way through the California legislature right now, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8, authored by Democrat Hector De La Torre.  Why is this measure dangerous?  As we all know, the tragic decision of the United States Supreme Court in Kelo vs. New London has allowed for significant abuse of eminent domain by government, allowing private property to be seized by local government on behalf of other private parties, if there is economic benefit to the local government.