AB 1421 is not a harmless technical exercise. It is an early-stage blueprint for a per-mile tax regime that could materially raise costs for California drivers, without any guarantee of better roads, or improved mobility. So says Los Altos Institution’s policy prodigy Athan Joshi in an Opportunity Now exclusive op-ed.
With California gubernatorial candidates waving the Emergency Flag to justify even more overweening state control (lookin' at you Xavier), it's good to remember that Friedrich Hayak, Opp Now's Guiding Light, saw through the gamesmanship nearly a century ago. From the Orange County Register.
This gubernatorial campaign has highlighted a number of whopping contradictions, non sequiturs, and amazing flip-flops from Dem candidates who struggle with the legacy of failure of One-Party rule in CA. We play shrink and unpack the psychological dimensions. An Opp Now exclusive.
A helpful lens through which to better understand the roots of indecisiveness comes from a research-based therapy approach called motivational interviewing. This technique has been successfully applied to reduce uncertainty and increase a range of behavioral changes. Dr. Valerie Hoover explains in Psychology Today.
What is the psychological explanation for a person wanting everyone to agree with them? Dr. Abbie Maroño, PhD in Psychology & Human Behaviour Analysis unpacks how while it looks like narcissism—it isn’t. Rather, the need for validation, fear of conflict, underlying insecurities interact to dissuade people from taking independent positions. In Forbes magazine.
Contra Costa County Taxpayers Association takes a look at what the SEIU wants to do with the proceeds from its coercive billionaires' tax proposal. It's not pretty. From National Review.
Contra Costa health director wildly inflated the cost of federal cuts to public health, owing to a math mix up. When CoCo Taxpayers Association corrected the record, Supervisor Candace Andersen turned her vote. Why didn’t the other supervisors? After all, says Marc Joffe, the County already has “plenty of money coming in.” The transcript of the interview with Capstone’s Jared Asch begins at minute 28:31:
San Jose's Urban Growth Boundary has led to spiraling housing costs and scores of urban ills. In Contra Costa County, taxpayers are fighting the proposal to extend their county's Limit Line (Measure A).
Ron Johnson of Midlands Psychological Associates explores how the contradictory nature of incompatible impulses can kick off an inner voyage of discovery.
