{"id":12924,"date":"2010-12-10T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-10T03:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T03:06:02","slug":"december-9-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/10\/december-9-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 9 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some links in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0e4s28yj5z1i&#038;done=.zc3nu0uqji8s5h\">crime victims fund, started under Pat Brown, has now been around for 45 years<\/a>, with a total payout of over two billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>* In theory, when you don&#8217;t pay the sales tax for an online purchase, you are supposed to pay the use tax. &nbsp;Unfortunately, not enough Californians are actually doing that, and we&#8217;re losing over a billion dollars per year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap-20101209,0,5084063,full.column\">George Skelton wants California to get serious about collecting<\/a>, working through our own state measures and\/or working with the federal government to end the sales tax moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>* CTA&#8217;s David Sanchez has <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0iengf2r9xxq&#038;done=.zc3nz5so6gct09\">some advice for Gov.-elect Brown<\/a>: focus on funding and the State Board of Education. <\/p>\n<p>* The rough census total from California? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/state-pegs-california-populati.html\">About 39 million people<\/a> in the nation&#8217;s largest state. &nbsp;If we were a nation, that would make us roughly the world&#8217;s 30th largest country.<\/p>\n<p>* Worker&#8217;s compensation? Yeah, it&#8217;s supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0mpv6y9h5ko9&#038;done=.zc3oqrrxqhox7m\">about helping injured workers<\/a>. Sure would be nice if it actually did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0e4s28yj5z1i&#038;done=.zc3nu0uqji8s5h\">crime victims fund, started under Pat Brown, has now been around for 45 years<\/a>, with a total payout of over two billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>* In theory, when you don&#8217;t pay the sales tax for an online purchase, you are supposed to pay the use tax. &nbsp;Unfortunately, not enough Californians are actually doing that, and we&#8217;re losing over a billion dollars per year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap-20101209,0,5084063,full.column\">George Skelton wants California to get serious about collecting<\/a>, working through our own state measures and\/or working with the federal government to end the sales tax moratorium.<\/p>\n<p>* CTA&#8217;s David Sanchez has <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0iengf2r9xxq&#038;done=.zc3nz5so6gct09\">some advice for Gov.-elect Brown<\/a>: focus on funding and the State Board of Education. <\/p>\n<p>* The rough census total from California? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/12\/state-pegs-california-populati.html\">About 39 million people<\/a> in the nation&#8217;s largest state. &nbsp;If we were a nation, that would make us roughly the world&#8217;s 30th largest country.<\/p>\n<p>* Worker&#8217;s compensation? Yeah, it&#8217;s supposed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=z2hzzuw1ko5cuy&#038;xid=zc0mpv6y9h5ko9&#038;done=.zc3oqrrxqhox7m\">about helping injured workers<\/a>. Sure would be nice if it actually did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ms","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}