Richard Rider
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Birthday
- August 24
- Title
- Chairman
- Company
- San Diego Tax Fighters
- Bio
- Biography of Richard Rider
(Updated July, 2011)
San Diego, CA 92131
E-mail: RRider@san.rr.com
* AGE: 66
* EDUCATION: B.A. Economics, University of North Carolina, 1968
* MILITARY SERVICE: Commander, Supply Corps, U. S. Naval Reserve, retired after 26 years (four years active, the rest in the reserve).
** OCCUPATION: Retired stockbroker and financial planner. Lifetime member of the International Association of Financial Planners. Former business owner.
* AFFILIATION:
• Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
• National Taxpayers Union
• Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
• San Diego County Taxpayers Association
* POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
• Successfully sued the county of San Diego (Rider vs. County of San Diego) to force a rollback of an illegal 1/2-cent jails sales tax, a precedent that saved California taxpayers over fourteen billion dollars, including $3.5 billion for San Diego taxpayers.
• Actively supported a variety of tax-cutting ballot initiatives including Proposition 13. Has written ballot arguments against numerous county and state tax increase initiatives.
• County co-chair of both California term limit initiatives (Prop 140 and Prop 164).
• Libertarian Party candidate for governor in 1994.
• Candidate for the 3rd District County Supervisor in 1992 (third place among six candidates with about 20% of the vote).
• 1993 – appointed to (and then elected chair of) the San Diego County Social Services Advisory Board.
• 1996 – appointed as a Commissioner on the California Constitution Revision Commission by state Assembly Speaker Kurt Pringle.
• Has been involved in legal actions against City of San Diego to force a public vote on issuing bonds for Qualcomm stadium expansion, convention center, baseball ballpark and other projects.
• 2005 – Unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of San Diego, though his reform ideas have since taken hold.
• 2007 – Columnist for NORTH COUNTY TIMES and SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT
• 2009 - The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association's "California Tax Fighter of the Year"
* FAMILY: Married. Wife, Diane, is a retired public high school teacher. Two sons, ages 32 and 27.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other
States Rev. 5/15/12
May 17, 2012 04:25PM - The labor unions’ private
sector multi-employer pension
bomb
May 15, 2012 12:15PM - Facebook co-founder quits U.S.
to avoid capital gains tax
May 13, 2012 11:21AM - Obama's education policies
will wreak havoc on CA schools
May 12, 2012 01:13PM - OBAMA'S ED POLICIES WILL WREAK
HAVOC ON CALIFORNIA EDUCATION
May 12, 2012 01:13PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The funny part is that
true believers continue to
make the
"50 million
refug…”
April 24, 2011 01:55PM - “We should never forget
that Next 10 was one of the
backers
(if not the
principal…”
February 20, 2011 02:42PM - “Excellent idea, Bob.
Indeed, I've been hyping the
"free"
student
lapto…”
August 12, 2010 04:58PM - “Thanks for the "comment"
guidance. Can one go back
and
RETROACTIVELY
t…”
September 24, 2009 11:19AM - “As I said before Robin,
I don't do one-on-one
discussions
without an
audience. A…”
September 24, 2009 10:51AM
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Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States Rev. 5/15/12
Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
Version 1.811 Revised: 3 May, 2012 … Read full post »
The labor unions’ private sector multi-employer pension bomb
Below is today’s (5/15/12) lead editorial from the WALL ST JOURNAL. While we concentrate mostly on government pension problems, this worthy piece delves into the PRIVATE defined benefit morass — the “multiple employer”pensions the private sector unions have put in place in a n/… Read full post »
I have written before about the Facebook IPO and the hoped-for CA tax windfall. I suggest that the projected state capital gains windfall is overblown, as many of the new millionaires and billionaires will move out of the state to avoid our November 13.3% millionaires' tax (which includes capital gai… Read full post »
Obama's education policies will wreak havoc on CA schools
OBAMA'S ED POLICIES WILL WREAK HAVOC ON CALIFORNIA EDUCATION
California's sky-high residential electricity rates
DRAFT!!! Work in progress!! Final version available by 5/18/2012. While I'm not adding this electricity cost analysis to my "Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States" factsheet (this analysis is a hard item to condense into one sentence), it's a situation my California readers need to understand.&n… Read full post »
White reporters beaten by black mob. So?
While there have been a number of un(der)reported race beatings by blacks since the Trayvon tragedy, FINALLY the press had their OWN white reporters beaten up by 6-30 blacks. THAT's DIFFERENT!
Well actually, not.
The newspaper refused to report the street beatings for two weeks. The poli… Read full post »
The U.S. 1st or 2nd most progressively taxed nation
Oddly enough, not true. &nb… Read full post »
Cherokee Prof. Liz Warren is neither a scholar nor Indian
It appears that one of the Left's superstars has moccasin feet of clay. Professor Elizabeth Warren's scholarship is shoddy at best. And evidence mounts that she claimed bogus "American Indian" status to gain affirmative action advantages.
Amazingly, she uses her unsubstanti… Read full post »
Calif. rated worst state by CEO's for 8th straight year
Here's the latest update to my "Breaking Bad" California fact sheet.
America’s top 650 CEO’s rank California “the worst state in which to do business” for the 8th straight year (May, 2012).
http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business-… Read full post »
Tire tariffs annually cost consumers $900,000 per job saved
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/05/tire-tariffs-cost-1b-and-900k-per-job.html
WEDNESDAY, MAY 02, 2012
Gasoline prices are dropping. Where's the press??
Ask yourself this question -- What would the MSM be reporting if gas prices steadily continued to INCREASE during this past month, even if only by the same 2%? Would not we be… Read full post »
How 401-k plans can approach zero administrative cost
One common labor union objection to defined contribution pension plans (401-k plans) is that the administration costs are "1%-3%" annually. They assert that it's much less expensive to let CalPERS or other "experts" manage a huge pooled account.
And indeed that high 1-3% individu… Read full post »
Thomas Sowell: If You Talk Honestly About Race
http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell86.1.html
If You Talk Honestly About Race
by Thomas Sowell
Recently by Thomas Sowell: Who Is 'Racist'?
Around this time of year, I sometimes hear from parents who have been appalled to learn that the child they sent away to college to become educated h… Read full post »
Feds require use of horses and hand-tools in construction
This story simply CAN'T be true. It damn sure SHOULDN'T be true. Yet the Goldwater Institute -- a highly respected Arizona free market think tank -- is litigating the issue in federal court.
To summarize, after huge forest fires and then monsoon rains that caused major mudslides, the town… Read full post »
The Great California Exodus
EXCERPT: Nearly 4 million more people have left the Golden State in the last two decades than have come from other states.
How I kicked B of A's butt across the state of California
In the last few days a story has emerged concerning the Bank of America terminating all dealings with their existing corporate customer because the company -- horrors! -- manufactures firearms.
http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/story/17668445/bank-of-america-drops-mcmillan
Naturally gun owners are… Read full post »
School vouchers gain ground - Wake up, California GOP!!
For me, the "wedge issue" that could reverse the dreary GOP appeal to minorities is school choice. It's something I've championed for decades.
No single measure could better help minorities than offering everyone options to seek better educational choices for their kids. Democrat… Read full post »
Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States Rev. 4/20/12
Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
Version 1.809 Revised: 20 April, 2012 &nb… Read full post »
Replace Representative Nathan Fletcher with a Chimpanzee
Recently CA State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher was absent from a vote on a crucial measure with major potential negative impacts on charter cities throughout the state. The Democrat-controlled legislature wants to make it practically impossible for any California city to ban Project Labor Agreem… Read full post »
Social Security by Choice: Experience of 3 Texas Counties
This little-known story of three Texas counties that set up
their OWN unique and highly successful social security plan (a
brief option that has since gone away) deserves widespread
publicity. Years ago I wrote about this, but frankly had
forgotten about their instructive experience.
Bel… Read full post »
Obama’s inequality argument just utterly collapsed
How to turn a $500 donation into a major “media buy”
How to turn a $500 donation into a major “media buy”
by Richard Rider
Everyone loves firefighters. Especially me. Volunteer firefighters are my heroes.
But recently the San Diego media hyped a story of San Diego firefighter charity that is rather odd – odd because it's repo… Read full post »
The High Cost of Low Community College Graduation Rates
$200,000 for 2 finches to breed in 'dozer -- public pays
EXCERPT: Last May, when construction on the Sunrise Powerlink, San Diego Gas & Electric Co.'s high-capacity transmission line, was still in its early stages, a pair of finches built a nest in the headlight of a $5,000-a-day earthmover ---- and idled the vehicle for 40 days.
"For the $2… Read full post »
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