Articles by Duf Sundheim

What a waste. Not only is our 70,000-page tax code bloated, inefficient, unfair, anti-growth, subject to cyber-attacks, and antiquated; complying with The Beast is an incredibly inefficient use of America’s resources. Just filing the returns requires Americans to spend 1.4 billion hours and costs us over $20 billion. For the average business, it requires twice the cost and effort. Thus, my number one priority in reforming our tax code will be to dramatically simplify The Beast. The code is lit...

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used her entire closing statement at the January 17 Democratic presidential debate to highlight the lead-poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan’s water supply, a racially-tinged health and public policy disaster that the Democratic front-runner casts as an urgent catastrophe requiring immediate attention. Clinton’s debate prose sought to shame Michigan’s Republican governor into action to help Flint’s 100,000 residents that have been drinking and bathing in l...

We are in the middle of our “One California” tour SundheimforSenate.com\tour, #DufTour on Twitter. This 6-week tour will take us from the California-Oregon border to the California-Mexico border. We have had as many as 18 events in three days. At several events I have been asked whether I support a pathway to legal status for those who are in the country illegally. After 32 years of marriage I am beginning to learn it is not what I say that counts, but what my wife hears. And even though I bel...

To solve a problem, we have to ask the right question. For example, is our goal to increase the minimum wage or to reduce poverty? If our goal is to reduce poverty, the next question would be: what is the best way to reduce poverty? By taking this approach, we would more clearly see increasing the minimum wage is a tool to achieve our goal of reducing poverty. And we would be more open to alternatives, which in combination with a minimum wage would better enable us to achieve our goal such goal...

On Sunday, Cheryl and I joined millions of Americans to watch the Season Premiere of Downton Abbey. As we are drawn to their lavish 1920s lifestyle, we also retain a degree of detachment, knowing that it soon will come to an end. Unfortunately, in too many ways the England of Downton Abbey is too similar to the America of today. Downton Abbey is the tale of a family steeped in traditions, yet engaged in excessive spending and entitlements. They continue these practices despite repeated warnings...