Our federal tax code is helping enable California’s reckless spending
How the Tax Code Enables Big Government Blue States
When California made its last annual budget, there were plenty of goodies for liberals in the famously blue state.
“The budget provides $50 million in state funding for women’s health services, a response to federal efforts to strip dollars from Planned Parenthood,” reported the Los Angeles Times.
The Sacramento Bee, underneath a section with the subhead “How is [Gov. Jerry] Brown responding to Donald Trump’s Washington?” noted that “The budget provides $6.5 million to fund 31 positions in the state Department of Justice to address what officials describe as new workloads relating to health care, environmental rules, consumer affairs and other general constitutional issues.”
In other words, the Trump administration will be facing plenty of lawsuits from the well-funded California attorney general’s office. --
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