Count the reasons dishonest Gavin Newsom shouldn’t – Latest News
As Gov. Gavin Newsom gears up to run for president, what in the world will he run on?
Californians know that Newsom won’t boast, “I will do for America what I have done to California!”
Why not?
Count the reasons.
California’s astronomical fuel costs and taxes stay the highest in the continental United States.
Ditto the state’s trifecta of the highest electrical energy charges, the costliest home costs, and the fourth-highest home-insurance prices.
California carries the largest debt in the nation, approaching $270 billion, primarily because of unfunded liabilities for state employees’ advantages.
The finances deficit every year often ranges from $15 to $70 billion.
Such profligate spending and deficits clarify why the state additionally has the highest income taxes and state gross sales tax charges in the nation.
Just 1% of California households pay 50% of the state income tax — and the fleeced are leaving in droves.
Newsom lately boasted that he prolonged Medi-Cal health insurance coverage to 1000’s more unlawful aliens.
No surprise he subsequent begged for a practically $3 billion Medi-Cal federal bailout.
Half of the state’s 41 million residents at the moment are on Medi-Cal. Some 50% of all births are Medi-Cal-provided — and growing.
California has a lot of different “mosts” amongst the 50 states:
The largest population of unlawful aliens.
The largest quantity of homeless people.
The largest quantity of people fleeing a state.
The largest quantity (11 million) and share (27%) of foreign-born residents.
The largest quantity of people residing in poverty.
The highest food costs in the continental US.
The state’s infrastructure is often rated close to the backside.
It ranks amongst the 5 worst states in per-capita violent crime.
California is a naturally rich state, and the third largest by space.
It ranks seventh in the nation in oil reserves, and no state has more agricultural manufacturing or forested land acreage.
So it’s laborious to bankrupt California — however Newsom has managed it.
Under prior Governors Pat Brown, Ronald Reagan, George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, California was the best-run state in the nation.
California as soon as produced more oil than another state besides Texas.
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Its now-moribund timber industry was as soon as the third largest in the nation.
And its presently ossified mining and mineral industries had been as soon as amongst the high 10 producers in the nation.
No state politician over the final three a long time has been more liable for California’s decline than Newsom: six years as governor, eight years as lieutenant governor, seven years as mayor of San Francisco, and 7 years on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
In these 30 years, California selected decline, driving out someplace between 18 and 20 million prosperous and middle-class state residents, the largest state exodus in US historical past.
Its open border welcomed in an inflow of over 10 million unlawful aliens.
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley’s $11 trillion in market capitalization created the nation’s wealthiest and most left-wing out-of-touch elite.
The end result was a medieval state of a few million wealthy elites, a mass of poor people, and a vanishing center class.
Such influxes and exoduses, together with gerrymandering, ensured a one-party state. There are no Republican statewide officeholders.
Democrats control all branches of authorities, and solely 17% of its congressional delegation is Republican.
So the left proudly owns what California has turn into.
What, then, will Newsom run on?
Certainly not high-speed rail — 17 years and $15 billion later, not a foot of monitor laid.
Certainly not a $500-million exploding photo voltaic battery plant.
Certainly not illegally issuing 17,000 business truck driver’s licenses to non-resident unlawful aliens with little or no English competency.
Certainly not the horrific however preventable Pacific Palisades fire.
And actually not a now-closed $2 billion desert photo voltaic plant boondoggle.
Instead, Newsom will proceed his he-man threats towards President Donald Trump — saying issues like “We’re going to punch this bully in the mouth.”
But will such bluster decrease the state’s fuel and energy costs or cut back its sky-high taxes?
On social media and in podcasts, Newsom will keep making adolescent threats to federal officers like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem whereas serving up potty-mouth smears.
But that profanity received’t decrease crime or housing costs.
In different phrases, in the Democratic primaries, Newsom will attempt to out-crazy the violence, profanity and extremism of the even crazier Democratic Socialists.
He will rant nonstop about the evil Trump, however neither offer a phrase nor do a factor about his own accountability for the collapse of a once-great state.
He will lecture on “affordability” with out mentioning that he has created the most unaffordable state in the nation.
Will his gobbledygook work?
It did in New York.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
