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
- Several states cutting or
eliminating their income tax.
February 22, 2012 09:40PM - Government DOES work. Just
not as promised.
February 21, 2012 01:04PM - Portugal legalizes drugs --
drug abuse drops 50%
February 20, 2012 01:06PM - Tech corner: Add memory to
your computer. Do it!
February 19, 2012 04:57PM - Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other
States Rev. 2/15/12
February 15, 2012 06:55PM
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
Richard Rider's Links
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- CATO Recent op-eds
- NCPA Daily Digest
- SD Rostra
- CARPE DIEM
Several states cutting or eliminating their income tax.
It's tragic how some desperate states experiencing runaway state government spending are raising their income taxes to soak the rich. But for those states such as California, it's MORE tragic that many other states are now moving to cut or eliminate their state income tax on corporati… Read full post »
Government DOES work. Just not as promised.
A
common fallacy of "our side" is to endlessly repeat the mantra that
"government doesn't work." It DOES work. Just not as
promised.
Our welfare state works. Pay women to have babies out of wedlock?
That works. A new study found that today over half of
U.S. babies born to women… Read full post »
Portugal legalizes drugs -- drug abuse drops 50%
Since I'm no longer running for office, I feel no need to "watch
what I say." Not that I ever did.
While now a GOP activist (after 35 years as a Libertarian), my
views on legalizing drugs haven't changed. Do it!
Not that I'm the only Republican who has come to… Read full post »
Tech corner: Add memory to your computer. Do it!
Up
until about 2 years ago, on my blog I would VERY occasionally post
up some layman's hints for computing -- some truisms I stumbled
across in my wanderings through geekdom. So I guess this is a
"retro" column.
Just to be clear -- this is NOT a political… Read full post »
Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States Rev. 2/15/12
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax
Fighters
Version 1.799 Revised: 15 February, 2012
Updated version online at: http://… Read full post »
Sweden (yes, SWEDEN) shows U.S. how free markets work
Rider on XETV-6 discussing SD city politician pay & pensions
Legally receive daily WSJ "Opinion" section by email
As I mentioned in a previous posting, for me, my WALL ST
JOURNAL newspaper is my catnip with my morning coffee —
at least the Opinion section. Great stuff.
Oddly enough, you can subscribe FOR FREE online for this
very section. The WSJ will send you a daily email/
As Super Bowl Shows, Build Stadiums for Love and Not Money
Speaking of Super Bowls (today's the day!), here's a timely article on building new stadiums to draw such "profitable" events to a city. As one might expect from a well-referenced, objective analysis (such as this opinion piece), it's a BAD idea financially. There might be other "rah rah" reaso… Read full post »
Gov Brown extorts "contributions" from businesses
GOV. BROWN CLAIMS HSR WILL BE FAR CHEAPER - AND FREE
RIDER COMMENT POSTED ON OTHER BLOGS: In a recent interview, Governor Jerry Brown claimed that CA High Speed Rail will cost “a lot less” than the current $100 billion figure that “people are saying” it’s going to cost. And he found a gold mine of free money that’s g… Read full post »
Rider now a weekly regular on XETV-News
Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States Rev. 1/25/12
Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
Version 1.798 Revised: 25 January, 2012 &n… Read full post »
Vaunted Germany solar expansion is a disaster
Solar power worshipers point to Germany as their role model. Germany has lead Europe and perhaps the world in the push for solar electricity. With massive government subsidies, the Germans have spent a fortune on massive solar installations that today they can proudly point to.
Only one p… Read full post »
CA HSR is AGAIN castigated by CA LAO
School choice is alive and growing -- in other states
The most important domestic subject that I FAIL to adequately cover is K-12 education. It's potentially the most effective tool we have for increasing vertical mobility in our society -- and hence is currently misused as the best single method to repress disadvantaged minorities.
W
… Read full post »The final HSR lie is exposed as more fraud
At this point, it's hard to imagine we will continue with this HSR madness, but… Read full post »
Labor unions do vast majority of "IE" spending in CA
The Left loves to lament the evil-corporations spending money on political matters -- supporting presumably conservative political candidates and causes. The presumption is that the "working class" party is buried by the profligate political contributions of the unfettered Fat Cats usin… Read full post »
Federal govt pay & benefits much higher than necessary
Daily Policy Digest
Tax and Spending Issues
January 18, 2012
Government Pay Is Inflated
In a new report, James Sherk, a senior policy analyst in labor economics at
… Read full post »Rider now a weekly TV commentator on XETV-6
Given that they were satisfied with this rather mediocre perf/
Exposing the slimy Delphi Technique in public meetings
Though there are many variations, this procedure is/
Peer group report condemns CA HSR. Yet it lurches on.
This week the peer review group studying the California High Speed Rail plan (as amended and/or exposed) came out with their report. Even though they as individuals probably were mildly supportive of the core HSR option, their report has nothing but scathing criticism for this "plan."
Conventional wisdom on convention centers not really wisdom
Rick Santorum strongly opposes limited government
10 IMPLICIT fallacies justifying government pensions
FALSE. Perhaps true at one time, but not so any more. In many instances, today'… Read full post »
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