Kersten Communications

The Legislature and Governor have managed to put together another “get out of town” budget agreement that fails to close the state’s structural budget gap and does nothing to collect the billions of dollars in tax revenues resulting from waste, fraud, and abuse in the state’s tax system.

Yesterday the Governor announced that he will immediately call the legislature into a special session when the 14-member Commission on

Health care reform is currently at the top of the national agenda with Congress and the Obama Administration preparing to consider a national health care reform plan in the coming weeks. 

Kersten Communications has prepared an in-depth report  which examines California’s attempt to enact universal health care reform.

The report titled, “Lessons Learned from the Failure of AB 1X 1: The Health Care Security and Cost Reduction Act,” is… Read More...

These recommendations were prepared by Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association with the assistance of Kersten Communciations.

I. Double (or more) all revenue projections below. No revenue item is too small to consider, because of the loss of federal matching funds. For example, collecting $35 million from conformity to federal back-up withholding is worth at least $70 million, and, given 2-1 matches for some programs… Read More...