My post on Tuesday, On California’s Shifting Tax Burden, cited a recent Los Angeles Times story claiming taxes paid by California businesses have been shrinking over the last 30 years. It attracted expected responses from some of my business-owner friends with counter-claims of their own. As a business owner myself, I’m certainly not feeling under-taxed. [...]
Last week, I looked at the federal taxes we pay (Economic Concerns…and Taxes) as well as a humorous illustration of our progressive tax system. Today? How about who pays what in California? A story published in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times tells us (Tax Burden for California Businesses? In Reality, Not That Bad, October 24, 2010). It [...]
Last Thursday, I posted the Milken Institute’s 2009 Best Performing Cities Index, which assesses the business performance of all cities across America (see that post here: Milken Institute: Bakersfield Job Recovery to be Tops in California). It first categorized each city’s size (either among the 200 largest cities or the 124 smallest), and then how well it [...]
California and Florida residential markets are most likely to yield above-average returns over next 10 years. So says SmartZip, Inc., a provider of investment ratings and analysis for residential real estate, who just released its assessment of the Top 10 markets in California and Florida. Is it because I find such news that makes me [...]
