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Month: April 2011

Redevelopment and Housing

  • California
April 27, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There is a lot of worry that getting rid of redevelopment will get rid of the one affordable housing program we seem to have in California.  A quota of 20% of redevelopment land to be used for “affordable” housing was, […]

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Progressive Consumption Taxes

  • Politics
April 26, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I agree with Frank, not with Henderson.  I have a lot less problem with progressive consumption taxes on the rich than with progressive income taxes.  That way if the rich use their money constructively, for capital investment, saving, or philanthropy, […]

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Are Corporations People? Part II

  • Culture
April 26, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have another observation to be added to my Corporations post.  And it’s kind of a compliment, incidentally, on the work of corporations and business in general in creating wealth. In John 6:15, Jesus, after feeding the five thousand, “knowing […]

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Sex-selection Abortion In Asia

  • Culture
April 22, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ugly specter of sex-selection abortion is a reality in Asia, and unfortunately not just in China.  Modern technology has met old attitudes and made this possible.  It is legal here in the USA de facto, but not much practiced […]

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Will Riverside, Fresno, and Bakersfield Become Civilized?

  • California
April 21, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin and William Frey, in their article “The Third California,” speculate that as Coastal California prices itself out of the market, Inland California may become a more civilized and upscale region.  In fact, the crash and the wave of foreclosures hit […]

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The Fate of Planned Parenthood: It Isn’t Just About Abortion

  • Culture
April 20, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In the last two weeks votes were taken on whether Title X should continue to fund Planned Parenthood’s work in pregnancy prevention, prenatal care, and education.  No Federal money, and to my knowledge no state money, funds Planned Parenthood’s abortion […]

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Are Corporations People?

  • Culture
April 19, 2011June 7, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The ‘corporation’ has been an item of controversy in the past, and not only on the left.  This The Economist article, “Peculiar people,” is a good primer on the issue.  I would add that: 1.  Most corporations in America are not ‘big […]

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David Stockman, Again

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 17, 2011July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In this article, David Stockman, although both a hard-money man and a social liberal, comes out against continuing the G. W. Bush tax cuts! Read it to find out why. Related: “The Triumph of Politics Over Economics” by Nick Gillespie […]

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2011 is not 1995

  • Economics,
  • Politics
April 16, 2011December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I confess that I was hoping that 2011 would be 1995.  After all, we had just climbed out of a serious recession in the earlier part of that decade – dwarfed by the more recent one of course, but big […]

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Club Wagner

  • Politics
April 15, 2011July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have asked to become a member of Club Wagner. I cannot be both that and a California Republican, that has been made abundantly clear. Related: “Club Wagner” by Douglas Holtz-Eakin at NYTimes.com Blogs Related: “Conservatives for Higher Taxes” by […]

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