Govern For California

While Hollywood is aflutter about who will win Academy Awards next Sunday, everyone in Sacramento is talking about which candidates for CA governor will win the endorsements of the state’s Top Rent-Seekers.

In fiscal year 2024-25, state and local governments in California spent $240 billion on public employees and $161 billion on healthcare enterprises. The government in California is big business, and the public employee unions, healthcare corporations and healthcare employee unions that captured those billions are among the biggest businesses in California.

Last night’s CA gubernatorial debate hosted by Jewish California reminded me of Li’l Abner, a comic strip I read as a kid in which the residents of a town lived in a state of perpetual war with tax agents whom they called “Revenooers.”