December 8, 2025
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Author: Ted Gaines

Senator Ted Gaines (Ret.) was elected to represent the Board of Equalization’s First District. He is a leading taxpayer advocate, defender of Prop. 13, and is committed to providing trustworthy and transparent representation for nearly ten million constituents in 30 counties of northern, eastern, and southern California. For more information, visit boe.ca.gov/Gaines.

Unemployment Fraud Climbs to $32 Billion with No Accountability in Sight

October 8, 2022   2:45 amOctober 8, 2022   8:14 am
If giving unemployment benefits to criminals sitting behind bars or fraudsters in foreign countries wasn’t enough to make your stomach turn, recently, we learned that California’s unemployment fraud initial estimate of $20 billion is closer to $32 billion and counting. During the...
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Looking For Upward Economic Mobility? Make Friends at Church

August 24, 2022   2:50 amAugust 23, 2022   3:55 pm
It’s tough to survive in California if you’re poor. Green-energy schemes drive our electricity rates 80-percent above the national average. Gas prices make every trip to the gas station gut-wrenching. The median home price is above $800,000 and our state...
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Eliminating Vehicle License Fee is One Step in Addressing Affordability

July 13, 2022   6:30 amJuly 12, 2022   5:44 pm
It’s time for the Great Undoing. California must undo the policies that have created the affordability crisis, forcing working families to live paycheck to paycheck. Whatever it takes, one policy at a time, and I’m starting with driving costs. I...
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Will Taxpayers be Robbed (Again) in 2022?

May 25, 2022   2:23 amMay 24, 2022   4:08 pm
And “historic” is the right word for California’s staggering tax windfall. Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced he expects the state to be sitting on a budget surplus of nearly $100 billion this year. That spare mountain of money equals the...
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California’s Ag Community Problems Should Be Everyone’s Concern

May 24, 2022   11:07 amMay 24, 2022   11:15 am
In March, our nation and state celebrated World Water Day and National Agriculture Week. While this vital California industry is worthy of celebration for being the principal food basket for our world, we must not ignore the challenges it is...
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COVID-T Variant Looks Deadly to California Freedom

April 6, 2022   2:27 amApril 5, 2022   3:13 pm
A dangerous strain of COVID is ripping through the California legislature. This new variant, COVID-T, for Totalitarian, threatens to sacrifice every, last, tiny shred of medical freedom in California on the altar of utopian “safetyism” and make the California U-Haul...
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California’s Green Energy Mania Prices Electricity Like a Luxury Good

March 5, 2022   2:22 amApril 3, 2022   4:27 pm
California is failing at the government basics. Public safety, homelessness, roads, and water storage are all in shambles. But as long as that shameful list is, it’s about to get longer. With summer around the corner, when demand is at...
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