Quotation for Today: Courts Used to Redistribute Income and Wealth to the One Percent

The quotation for today highlights another tool -- bankruptcy procedures -- that is being used to redistribute wealth to the One Percent.

Education or Prison

The funding of K-12 education in the United States deserves special and immediate attention, and none more so than spending on education in the state of California.

Quotation for Today: An Offer They Can't Refuse

"There's 24-plus systems in the Southern California Edison area that have been installed in the last three years that we have not been able to negotiate an interconnection agreement on. We think we are close at times, but then nothing. We were successful with PG&E, but with Southern California Edison...." 

Jack Williams

Quotation for Today: The Impoverished Elderly

"Please, please keep me in mind. I can start any time you like."

Kate Hamon

California's Prop 13 Redux (Californie imposition foncière redux)

In 1978, Californians, via the initiative process, enacted Proposition 13. Proposition 13 basically froze real property tax rates in place for the next 30-plus years.  Now, a group has brought a lawsuit to challenge Proposition 13 on constitutional grounds.

Quotation for Today

Today's quotation, presented on the other side of the break, focuses our attention on education.