Stop the ‘mileage tax’; make the Golden State – Latest News
How is it that Californians pay the highest taxes in the nation however get the worst outcomes?
Highest gasoline tax in America — however we have now the worst roads.
Highest income tax — and the highest unemployment charge of any state.
The nation’s highest state gross sales tax — alongside America’s highest poverty charge.
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Sixteen years of Democrat one-party rule have seen an explosion of bloated, bureaucratic authorities from Sacramento. Now it’s dawning on more and more Californians that there’s a direct connection.
We undergo the worst outcomes as a result of we have now the highest taxes.
And it retains getting worse. Look at the Democrats’ newest merciless ploy to punish common working people: a new “mileage tax” that can monitor you all over the place you drive your car or truck, then charge you for it.
It may value drivers more than $1,000 a yr. And that’s earlier than we even get to the creepy surveillance half of this outrageous scheme.
This is on high of all the different hidden taxes and costs drivers must pay — from the gasoline tax to vehicle registration. In most different states it prices much less than $100 to resume your registration every year. In California it may be lots of, typically 1000’s of {dollars}.
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The punishing stage of taxation in California is driving out the very people and companies we need to generate the wealth on which a profitable financial system and society rely.
It’s grow to be so dangerous that the taxes don’t even must be enacted for them to have a massively harmful impact.
Just have a look at the Democrats’ insane scheme for a so-called “billionaire tax” — in actuality, a completely un-American and unconstitutional asset seizure.
Merely the menace of it, based on the hosts of the influential tech and politics podcast “All-In,” has pushed $1 trillion of wealth out of the state in current weeks. Billions of {dollars} of tax income have been misplaced as legendary California entrepreneurs like Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin flee to much less hostile places.
But if punitive taxes aren’t making life higher for Californians, the place is all our money going? The more they take, the much less we appear to get.
Well — we’re beginning to discover out.
In 2024, the California State Auditor recognized $24 billion of homelessness spending that couldn’t be accounted for. Homelessness continued to rise during the time this money was “spent.”
Now, prosecutions led by Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, are revealing that some of the money wasn’t spent on combating homelessness; it was stolen by fraudsters.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz was just lately in California to spotlight $1.3 billion illegally spent on health look after undocumented immigrants, in addition to widespread fraud in the hospice care system.
But isn’t it outrageous that it’s taken federal motion to begin bringing some accountability for all this?
Where is Gavin Newsom? Too busy trolling President Trump on social media and making a idiot of himself in Davos.
California Governor Gavin Newsom talking at a podium with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Getty Images
Where is California Attorney General Rob Bonta? Too busy submitting infinite nuisance lawsuits towards the Trump administration.
It needs to be our leaders, right here in California, who shield taxpayers by discovering and stopping fraud. They needs to be cautious stewards of our money, making sure they take as little from us as attainable and spending it correctly and successfully.
Instead we have now a shameful tradition of corruption and neglect.
I’m working for governor to put an finish to all this. I’ll veto the extortionate mileage tax scheme whether it is ever handed by the Democrat-dominated legislature.
Last week, I introduced my plan to cap vehicle registration at the fundamental charge of $71.
And I’m not even ready till I’m elected.
This week I introduced the institution of CAL DOGE, the California Department of Government Efficiency. A stellar staff of extremely certified volunteers, drawn from the worlds of finance, law enforcement, and authorities reform, is attending to work figuring out fraud, in addition to on particular steps to cut our bloated state authorities down to measurement.
A fraud whistleblower line, Califraud.com, which I launched final yr with my working mate for state controller, Herb Morgan, has already recognized up to $250 billion in potential fraud.
I’m placing collectively the staff to close down “Califraudia” for good.
As governor, it will likely be my high precedence to put hard-working Californians first, not the corrupt system constructed up over 16 years of Democrat one-party rule.
Stop the fraud, finish the bloat, cut taxes — that’s at the coronary heart of my marketing campaign to make our state Califordable again.
Steve Hilton is a Republican candidate for governor. @stevehiltonx stevehiltonforgovernor.com
