Stretching California’s already fraying safety net even further, to cover people who aren’t here legally, is not compassion. It’s fiscal malpractice.
California’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit could soon grow worse.
State tax revenue dropped over 14% in the recession that followed the dot-com bubble, nearly 14% during the Great Financial Crisis from 2008 to 2009, and almost 8% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, with financial markets reeling thanks to the Trump administration’s tariff drama, Sacramento could see its tax take plummet by billions of dollars, as it has in the past.
Yet instead of charting a safer course through choppy economic seas, Governor Newsom seems determined to throw caution to the wind. He’s doubling down on his initiative to offer free health benefits to 1.6 million low-income undocumented immigrants — even though it has cost California taxpayers billions more than forecast.
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California can’t afford free health care for undocumented immigrants
Sally C. Pipes
Stretching California’s already fraying safety net even further, to cover people who aren’t here legally, is not compassion. It’s fiscal malpractice.
California’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit could soon grow worse.
State tax revenue dropped over 14% in the recession that followed the dot-com bubble, nearly 14% during the Great Financial Crisis from 2008 to 2009, and almost 8% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, with financial markets reeling thanks to the Trump administration’s tariff drama, Sacramento could see its tax take plummet by billions of dollars, as it has in the past.
Yet instead of charting a safer course through choppy economic seas, Governor Newsom seems determined to throw caution to the wind. He’s doubling down on his initiative to offer free health benefits to 1.6 million low-income undocumented immigrants — even though it has cost California taxpayers billions more than forecast.
Read the op-ed in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.