Can California Survive?: Livestream w Carl DeMaio and Adrian Moore, Tonight at 7.15pm ET/4.15pm PT

Calling policy wonks, Golden State taxpayers, and all the ships at sea!

Reason is happy to bring you a livestreamed conversation about California's fiscal woes and how to move forward into a sustainable future.

Reason Foundation's Vice President of Policy, Adrian Moore, will talk with former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who pushed through S.D.'s historic pension reform plan last year, lost a close election to become mayor, and is now heading up Reason Foundation's California Reform Agenda.

The action starts right here at Hit & Run at 7.15pm ET/4.15pm PT.

See you then.

Comments

[Aresen]

But California balanced its budget!

Governor Moonbeam Brown said so!

[Sevo]

Yeah, but the piggybank is now empty. What's he gonna do next year?

[Irish]

California's unemployment rate is 9.8%, Sevo! It's on its way down! Another 2 years and it might be below 8!

[Fist of Etiquette]

3MB PICTURE ALERT.

[Len Bias]

"Can California Survive?"

NO. If survival means cutting abandoning all hopes for achieving a progressive paradise, then too many Californians just don't want survival.

[Len Bias]

"cutting" shouldn't be in there. D'oh.

[darius404]

CUT THEM. CUT ALL THE HOPES.

[Sevo]

If we had eggs, we could have ham and eggs if we had ham.
The presumption that people will begin to understand the size of the unfunded benefits is not shown.

[grey]

Reminds me of a Woody Allen, "...this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, "Doc, uh, my brother's crazy; he thinks he's a chicken." And, uh, the doctor says, "Well, why don't you turn him in?" The guy says, "I would, but I need the eggs."

California needs the eggs so it all makes sense.

[Sudden]

129% of highest salary for life is not enough!!1!!11!!!!!!!

/spacey tony

[fish]

Way way way OT:

Joe Biden tells people to just buy a shotgun.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/b.....02989.html

California man takes Joe up on his suggestion.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.co.....eback.html

Doesn't America deserve Joe Biden as Chief Executive?

[General Butt Naked]

If shotguns are more lethal than ARs shouldn't he be seeking a shotgn ban?

[fish]

Well there goes Crazy Old Uncle Joe again.......

[Tulpa (LAOL-PA)]

That must be why Homeland Security is ordering hundreds of thousands of over-under shotguns as personal defense weapons.

[Sevo]

He seems 'way more optimistic than I am. This is CA for pete's sake; unicorns poop gold nuggets! Moonbeam got more than 50% of the voters to approve even more tax this last election!
I'm just not sure most voters have even a hint at the amount of money owing or the number of scams the government uses to keep it up.

[grey]

"I'm just not sure most voters know or care about the amount of money owing or the number of scams the government uses to keep it up."

Slightly more accurate.

[Not a Libertarian]

What were the reasons that Mr. DeMaio lost his bid for the San Diego mayoralty?

Is he a poor campaigner? Latent anti-gay bias?

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Because he was running the pension reform initiative at the same time, the unions spent over $10 million to defeat him.

[jorgeborges]

The gay community hated him because he didn't have gay marriage as part of his platform.

[johnl]

BHO bringing Democrats to the polls. If it had been an off year, he would have won. He ran a good race. And yeah, anti-gay bias.

[16th amendment]

The speaker says we need to fix California so that people want to move here, build businesses and families here. But then again, if CA keeps it taxes and regulations growing this is a good thing for other states. Those states will grow. Today most big tech companies are in CA. But if they move to other states, or new companies are located in other states this means spreading the wealth. This is a good thing. I say we should raise the CA top rate from 13.3% to 20.3%.