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
- Rider on XETV-6 discussing SD
city politician pay & pensions
February 09, 2012 05:38PM - Legally receive daily WSJ
"Opinion" section by email
February 07, 2012 06:17PM - As Super Bowl Shows, Build
Stadiums for Love and Not
Money
February 05, 2012 10:36AM - Gov Brown extorts
"contributions" from
businesses
January 31, 2012 06:44PM - GOV. BROWN CLAIMS HSR WILL BE
FAR CHEAPER - AND FREE
January 30, 2012 12:19PM
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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- CATO Recent op-eds
- NCPA Daily Digest
- SD Rostra
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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 »
The liberals' Kim Kardashian con job on CA income taxes
In a new publicity campaign, liberals have decided to make the beautiful but smarmy Kim Kardashian their poster child for raising the state millionaires' tax to over 15%. Their pitch is that millionaires pay only 1% more in income taxes than middle class CA taxpayers.
Granted, th… Read full post »
Dems claim GOP is cause of California's economic demise
Periodically liberals desperately try to share the blame for the California disaster with Republicans – or even stick GOP politicians with most of the "credit." They have two stock explanations for the Golden State's downward slide.
1. Democrats don't have ENOUGH control of… Read full post »
CA HSR jobs only 2-6% of what was promised. Close enough!
In case you missed it -- the flacks for CA HSR lied. About EVERYTHING.
If they mentioned any number with any benefit of building HSR, they lied. ANY FIGURE.
The latest objective analysis concludes that rather than the "1,000,000 jobs" promised by the HSR folks, the real figure is optimis… Read full post »
Lessons from the North AND South Dakota Economic Boom
North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at
3.5%. Ten counties in ND have less than 2% unemployment. They have
an oil and gas extraction boom going on, though their low
unemployment rate predates that growth in oil and gas
jobs.
Critics
like to claim that ND is… Read full post »
Two common liberal economic fallacies -- with Rider rebuttal
Recently a liberal online debater jousting with me presented two factoids that he smugly assumed proved conclusively that CA should have high taxes -- that my concerns over CA taxes were thus "the height of sophistry." Both his FACTS were true -- but they did nothing for making his case.… Read full post »
Field Poll: CA voters would derail high-speed rail
2. If the vote were held today, 59% would reject… Read full post »
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