Richard Rider

Biography of Richard Rider
(Updated October, 2012)
San Diego, CA
Phone: (858) 530-3027
E-mail: RRider92131@Gmail.com
Blog:
www.RiderRants.blogspot.com/
AGE: 67
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). Vietnam veteran, but never stationed in-country.
OCCUPATION: Retired stockbroker and financial planner. Lifetime member of the International Association of Financial Planners. Retired business owner.
AFFILIATION:
• Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters
• National Taxpayers Union
• Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
• San Diego County Taxpayers Association
• Republican Party
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 $14 billion, 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 dozens of 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 citizen 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 – Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association’s “California Tax Fighter of the Year.” Largely as a result, the San Diego City Council declared 4 October, 2009 “Richard Rider Day.”
2012 -- Guest on Fox Business Network. Regular weekly commenter on XETV-6 TV news.
FAMILY: Married. Wife, Diane, is a retired public high school teacher. Two sons, ages 33 and 28.
Posts by Richard Rider:
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Fixed costs, variable costs, and why few CA eateries will be open after 9 PM,
19 Apr 2023 in Blog Posts
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Social security “bend” tax brackets heavily subsidize low-income earners — updated for 2023,
27 Feb 2023 in Blog Posts
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For most, SS is a surprisingly good deal — if we ignore the doomed nature of this Ponzi scheme,
26 Dec 2022 in Blog Posts
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Why I voted FOR the massive, grossly unfair Prop 30 “soak the rich” tax,
29 Oct 2022 in Blog Posts
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CA vs. Other States – REVISED October, 2022,
13 Oct 2022 in Blog Posts
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How the dangerous 1994 California Constitution Revision Commission was defanged. Hint: I was a member.,
12 Oct 2022 in Blog Posts
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The average 2021 San Diego home buyer IMMEDIATELY starts saving $828 a MONTH in property taxes — thanks to Prop 13,
10 Oct 2022 in Blog Posts
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For over 50 years, all the publicized weather calamity predictions have been spectacularly wrong. The MSM will NOT compare these predictions with what actually happened.,
02 Oct 2022 in Blog Posts