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Stick a Fork in California: Gov. Newsom’s Proposed Retroactive Billionaire Tax

November 24, 2025 2:45 amNovember 25, 2025 1:42 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing a retroactive billionaire tax targeting the roughly 220 billionaires residing in California in 2025, ignoring that these individuals are the most financially mobile and can live anywhere. Expecting them to remain in the state...

Florida is Right to End Vaccine Mandates; Now Every State Should Follow

October 8, 2025 3:30 amOctober 8, 2025 3:31 am

When Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and Governor Ron DeSantis announced plans to eliminate vaccine mandates across the state—some through administrative rule changes, others through future legislative action—they did more than propose new policy. They reminded the nation that the...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: More People are Moving from California U-Haul Reports

August 25, 2025 8:00 amAugust 25, 2025 4:05 pm

It’s starting to feel like Groundhog Day. Every nationwide report has bad news for California whether it’s CEOs or U-Haul rentals for moves to other states. As we reported in July, California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to...

UPDATED: How to Kill a State in 5 Easy Steps – Gavin Newsom’s California

August 13, 2025 7:36 amAugust 13, 2025 7:38 am

California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID job levels, and even our partial recovery is entirely dependent on government jobs. The California Center for Jobs & the Economy recently reported: “California’s job growth has been...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

July 22, 2025 9:12 amJuly 22, 2025 9:13 am

With California Governor Gavin Newsom blatantly denying that California is losing residents and businesses to many other states, and that the state’s outbound migration exceeds inbound migration, it’s time to refresh U-Haul’s January report showing that more Californians rented one-way...

ALEC’s ‘Rich States, Poor States’ Ranks California 47th in the Nation – Again

April 19, 2025 8:42 amApril 21, 2025 6:47 pm

One of my favorite state rankings publications is out, and unfortunately, California does not have good news… again. The American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, publishes the annual Rich States, Poor States report, authored by economists Art Laffer, Stephen Moore and...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

January 5, 2025 9:10 amJanuary 5, 2025 9:15 am

U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...