By Dan Fernandes on 10/29/2004 1:37 AM
People need a set of guiding principles to help them decide difficult political questions. My guiding principles have to do with market ethics. If some action would violate basic market ethics, then I can be sure it is the wrong action. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 10/25/2004 5:08 PM
The Three Strikes Laws create injustices for everyone including the defendants, their families, and the taxpayers. What we are doing with our present Three Strikes Laws is often heartless, and makes no sense. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 10/13/2004 1:05 PM
Prop. 63 earmarks $750 million-plus annual tax expenditure for a narrow special-interest group, namely the mental healthcare industry in California. To pay for this, it assaults an already-burdened category of California taxpayers: those who earn more than $1 million per year. This taxing scheme is a sham which will likely raise no net revenue, but instead will drive enough high-earners out of state to do damage to California's jobs and economic development. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 10/3/2004 10:25 PM
Talk radio is full of concern these days about illegal immigrants taking away our jobs, burdening our welfare system, and possibly endangering our lives. Employers of illegals are vilified and threatened with prison. People talk of placing troops at the Mexican border to stop illegal traffic. What is going on here? ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/30/2004 7:50 PM
Republicans have made gay marriage a hot political topic this election, with talk of a constitutional amendment to define marriage. I favor gay marriage laws at the state-by-state level. However, I do not support efforts to force private employers to provide spousal benefits to gays. Here is why. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/22/2004 10:22 PM
I have never used marijuana and don’t even know anyone who does. So how can I be so sure it is safe to make marijuana legal? The answer is simple. Legalizing marijuana has nothing to do with how safe or how harmful it may be. Lots of substances are harmful (like cyanide, and arsenic), yet BATF and DEA SWAT teams are not breaking down doors in the night looking for them. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/15/2004 4:34 PM
Put yourself in the place of union leaders who have managed to increase wages of union workers to artificially high levels. What is to prevent jobs from going to non-union contractors? Answer: minimum wage and prevailing wage laws. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/7/2004 10:14 PM
The Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA, passed during the first Bush administration, is intended to eliminate, or at least minimize, discrimination against the disabled. Trumpeted as equal rights for the disabled, it gives people the right to sue if they can show that someone has discriminated against them because of their disability, in the areas of employment and in access to facilities. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/2/2004 11:02 PM
No doubt you learned from your government school text book that unions pushed to pass labor laws in the early twentieth century to stop the exploitation of children by greedy industrialists, who paid children low wages to work long hours in unsafe sweatshops. These laws made it illegal to employ pre-teens and young teens is factories. ...
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By Dan Fernandes on 9/2/2004 2:56 PM
The problem with our constitutional amendment process is that it is controlled by a federal government that has no desire to limit its own power. So the constitution isn’t about to be improved any time soon, but if it were, here are the amendments I would wish for. ...
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