Gavin Newsom, former mayor of San Francisco, is running for Governor of California. And of course, as a believer in big government as well as “government as a solution”, Newsom feels compelled to make benefit promises with other people’s money. In this case, he’s proposing that California put its own single-payer health care system in place since that old meanie Trump seems to be intent on dismantling the sparklingly successful ObamaCare. </sarc> No, seriously, this guy wants to pile even more debt on a state that can’t afford the debt it has now. As Stephen Green points out over at Insty’s place : A similar plan was rejected in November by Colorado voters by a four-to-one margin. Something about doubling state taxes and spending in the first year didn’t seem to sit well with voters. And as reported last week , California’s top marginal income tax is already the highest in the nation — at 13.3% it’s nearly one-third higher than second-place Maine — so “soaking the
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