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
- Liberal think tank admits CA
has high taxes
May 29, 2012 02:41PM - San Diego Tax Fighters June
2012 Ballot Recommedations
May 24, 2012 03:41PM - 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
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
- Rider's Reads
- CATO Recent op-eds
- NCPA Daily Digest
- SD Rostra
- CARPE DIEM
Outsourcing San Diego city services -- it's time!
This week San Diego city reformers led by Carl DeMaio submitted signed petitions to place on this November's ballot a measure to put city services out to competitive bid. Called "managed competition," this procedure encourages the city departments to submit their bid as well. It will be a… Read full post »
Need help at big San Diego city reform rally Monday 14 June
The battle is joined! A big labor union anti-competition rally is scheduled tomorrow (Monday, 14 June) at 11 AM at San Diego City Hall to counter our turning in the "gut the city public employee labor unions" petitions (crude paraphrasing by yours truly -- NOT by the sponsors… Read full post »
The oppressive new 1099 law requirements
On 24 May I posted on this blog a piece on the new, onerous IRS Form 1099 requirements for businesses. In essence, any business payment exceeding $600 to anyone else requires the submission of a 1099 to the IRS, detailing the transaction -- including the taxpayer ID number. This req… Read full post »
Germans nail public pension problem with comedy
While I understand my government issues are serious, I don't think we always have to treat them seriously.
Here's a fine lighthearted video review of the public employee pension problem. While the clip is in German, I've personally verified that the English subtitles are quite accu… Read full post »
The insanity of military specs -- for oatmeal cookies
U.S. limits BP oil spill liability to $75 million. Madness!
The monumental British Petroleum Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been held aloft by Big Government advocates as a dramatic example of "the failure of the free market." But is it? Short answer: Hell NO!
[Ex-economist (now partisan commentator) Paul Krugman goes so far as to point to th… Read full post »
San Diego Tax Fighters Endorsements for June 2010
SAN DIEGO TAX FIGHTERS
JUNE 2010 CANDIDATE (and PROP) ENDORSEMENTS – Version
1.0
Contact: Richard Rider, Chairman
Generally, the board of San Diego Tax Fighters chooses to dwell on issues rather than candidates. But there are times
… Read full post »McClintock, Hedgecock & Rider agree on CA props
It’s not always the case. But on the June CA statewide props, we three agree.
Yes, no, no, yes, yes.
Roger Hedgecock’s endorsements can be found here. My matching prop endorsements have previously been posted.
And below are Tom McClintock’s prop endorsements for
… Read full post »Greed and Ambition Fuel CA Prop. 14
RIDER COMMENT: Prop 14 is being falsely touted as an “open primary” proposition. It's not.
But it WILL effectively eliminate third parties from ballot qualification in California, and will ban write-in votes.
And this supposedly promotes democracy??
Here's a good edit… Read full post »
Health care bill includes Form 1099 Frankenstein
This 1099 provision in the massive health… Read full post »
Breaking Bad: CA vs. Other States - Revised 5/21/10
Breaking Bad: CA vs. the Other States
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
Version 1.68 Revised 21 May, 2010
Updated version online at: www.RiderBlog.NotLong.com&n… Read full post »
I'm doing additonal posting on Facebook
Because of the ease of postiing on Facebook, I'm putting some interesting political stuff on there that I don't put here on my blog. When I'm reading online an article I particlularly like and want to share, often I can then click on the Facebook icon. I write a few words… Read full post »
CA pensions assume 28,000,000 DOW in 2099
RIDER COMMENT: Years after giving up on the pension reform battle, CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger belatedly has decided to bring the issue back. Well, HE didn't decide -- the disaster that is California decided it for him.
Below is a good WALL ST JOURNAL piece by his guy David C… Read full post »
Thomas Sowell on the folly of Obamanomics
After my main man Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell is easily my favorite economist. But he's more than a great free market economist. He offers enightening sociological and philosophical insights. Professor Sowell is truly an original thinker.
Even though he is a bit past his peak as… Read full post »
California among 10 worst "nation" credit risks?
Here's a chart that compares nations on the likelihood of defaulting on their debt. Guess who just made the Top Ten? California!
Yes, according to this criteria, our nation-state is now the eighth riskiest "nation" in the entire world. We are a bit better than Lebano… Read full post »
Govt employees paid less than private sector? NOPE!
Below is the link to a detailed rebuttal of a recent bogus study claiming that public employees are paid less than the private sector. This rebuttal was done by my friend Adam Summers with the Reason Foundation.
Of course, the opposite is true. Today most (not all) public employees… Read full post »
SD Tax Fighters Position on June Props
Proposition Recommendations of San Diego Tax Fighters – for June, 2010
Contact: Richard Rider, Chairman
San Diego Tax Fighters has completed its review of the June 2010 Primary Election state and local ballot measures and issued its ballot recommendations. A supermajority (… Read full post »
Tech Corner: Don't Press That F1 Key! Maybe.
Yes, this is a legitimate warning to some Internet users. But the circulating chainletter email that warns o… Read full post »
Navy naming warship the “John Murtha”???
Incredibly, the Navy (yes, OUR Navy) is planning to name a warship after the late John Murtha — a contemptible human being who served many years as a U.S. Congressman. A ragtag but vocal opposition movement
… Read full post »"Saturday Night Live" skit lampoons public employees
ADOPTED FROM JACK DEAN POST: No matter how bad the show's writing has been over the past decade or so, you know that an issue has developed widespread awareness when it's the subject of a skit on Saturday Night Live.
I give the… Read full post »
RIDER GOES POSTAL AT POST OFFICE
The following is a rather long personal account of an unsettling encounter I had at the post office. It concerns tax returns. Frankly, most should skip this story. You’ve been warned.
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On the evening of 15 April, I had an interesting run-in with post office personnel conc… Read full post »
End San Diego ban on Wal-Mart Superstores
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE editorial writer Chris Reed has an excellent post on his blog about the incoherent anti-Wal-Mart arguments by Democrats against low food prices and jobs for lower income folks. I strongly recommend reading his piece.
It reviews in detail a fabulous study fro… Read full post »
Article proving the folly of the trolley
Check out the SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE article of 27 September, 2009 on commuting in San Diego County. The story got little consideration, but is a blockbuster when it comes to totally discrediting our massive trolley expenditures. The madness of the trolley folly becomes readily appar
… Read full post »Breaking Bad: CA vs. Other States - Revised 4/11/10
Breaking Bad: California vs. the Other States
by Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
Version 1.65 Revised 11 April, 2010
Updated version online at: www.RiderBlog.Not… Read full post »
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