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  • California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water

    California Now Wants to Tax… Drinking Water0

    California’s new governor has wasted little time continuing the state’s seemingly limitless expansion of government. Governor Gavin Newsom’s first budget proposal, published last week, suggests instituting a tax on drinking water in the name of cleaning up California’s water systems. The “Environmental Protection” section of the 2019-2020 budget seeks to establish a new special fund,

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  • California Mandates ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Sections in Department Stores

    California Mandates ‘Gender-Neutral’ Toy Sections in Department Stores3

    California continues to face a scourge of shoplifting, with rates of the crime rising almost 29 percent in 2022, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. This trend shows no sign of abating, as the 2023 rates in Los Angeles indicate. Instead of addressing this pressing issue, however, California legislators have overseen the passage

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  • California Makes Housing Scarcer

    California Makes Housing Scarcer0

    Housing in California will become even more scarce. California’s legislature has shelved a bill that would result in more housing construction, while moving forward on other legislation that would reduce the supply of housing. The State Senate just blocked a bill that would have allowed denser development near transit stops, increasing the number of housing

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  • California Makes 20x What Gas-Station Owners Make on a Gallon of Gasoline, After Tax Hike

    California Makes 20x What Gas-Station Owners Make on a Gallon of Gasoline, After Tax Hike0

    California drivers experienced sticker shock at the gas pump on Nov. 1. The state’s gasoline tax rose by 12 cents per gallon that day, bringing the total to 39.8 cents. Along with the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, Californians now pay 58.2 cents in excise taxes per gallon. Like all other states with sales

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  • California LGBT Activists Call for Taking Children From Parents

    California LGBT Activists Call for Taking Children From Parents4

    In California, “stranger danger” may be about to acquire a whole new meaning. Forget warning kids. It’s the parents in California who will need to be terrified of strangers if a new bill passes. Snuck into AB 665, legislation ostensibly about extending mental health care to lower-income California youths, is a provision that effectively would

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  • California Issues ‘Travel Ban’ on Some Red States

    California Issues ‘Travel Ban’ on Some Red States0

    Single-party dominance has made California a little crazy. After a “Calexit” secession effort failed when its leader decided to move back to Russia, the deep-blue state has now turned to other methods to resist the change in political fortunes. On Friday, the California Assembly narrowly failed to pass a plan to bring single-payer health care

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