California
has long been seen as America’s entrepreneurial epicenter and progressive trend
setter, where you pick your perfect lifestyle, outdoor sport and environment.
But beyond the gilded California commercials is a broken system plagued by
over-regulation, mindless bureaucracies, high taxes and pernicious lawsuits..... A chronic business impediment is the
California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). CEQA, a
1975 law to curb the damaging environmental impacts of development, has mutated into a monster. Almost anyone can file a CEQA lawsuit against any
development they dislike; plaintiffs win half of the cases they file, and when
they lose they do not pay the defendants’ legal fees (the reverse does not
apply). Developers are forced to hire expensive unionized labor to ward off
union bosses’ threats of spurious CEQA suits. For example, shops and gas
stations file CEQA lawsuits to prevent competitors from opening up across the
street. CEQA has been amended hundreds of times, mostly by partisan “green”
special interests......To Read More.....
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