Newsom

As California Governor Gavin Newsom gears up for a presidential run in 2028, he is pivoting toward the center but leaving behind a state with a number of problems. There is a $12 billion dollar deficit, the highest state income tax at 13.6%, the highest gasoline tax, the highest sales tax and the highest electricity cost. Except for the income tax these taxes are all regressive and hurt the poor far more than the rich. 250,000 upper middle-income people leave the state each year. The school system is in the bottom ten states and poverty rate is 21%. They shut down their nuclear power and spent $30 billion on a high-speed rail and not one mile of track has been laid. They shut down the lumber industry and the refineries which were good middle-income jobs. The people in power who set up this system live in safe gated communities far from the homeless living on the streets. If Newsom is the nominee will any of this information be made available by the press. His latest change of direction is a promise to do something about the homeless problem. During his term they spent $24 billion tackling this problem and things got worse.