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Newsom Budget: Years Of Public Safety Afterthought
National Review | January 22, 2025 | Steve Smith

Governor Gavin Newsom spoke recently at Cal State Stanislaus highlighting his workforce initiatives and used the opportunity to introduce his 2025-2026 budget…

State budgets are exceptionally complex documents full of granular data but a birds-eye view of spending places our tax dollars in a number of buckets of broad spending categories. On top are health and human service spending and education. Near the bottom is public safety, and at the very bottom are California’s crime victims.
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The Newsom Education Budget: No Bang For The Buck
Right by the Bay | Lance Izumi | January 22, 2025

All this added spending has bought lots more programs: more before/after-school programs, more summer school, expanded kindergarten eligibility, more discretionary funding for school districts, and more school meals, to name just a few.

So, as Newsom says, California’s public education system has expanded greatly. But has this expansion improved the system as the governor claims?

The answer is no if one defines improvement as improving student achievement.
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The Newsom Budget On Taxes: Yes, Governor, California Is A High-Tax State
Right by the Bay | Nikhil Agarwal | January 21, 2025

California imposes the highest top marginal state income tax rate and one of the highest state and local sales tax rates in the country.

It is simply illogical to claim that a state with the highest income tax rate and a very high state and local sales tax rates is not a high tax state.

Unsurprisingly, objective comparisons of the 50-state tax systems confirms the obvious.

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