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This is the Sacramento doom loop: make everything insanely expensive, then jack up the minimum wage and taxes because people can’t afford to live — which just makes everything EVEN MORE expensive. Official “low income” is now $100k. Working people lose the most. Enough is Enough.

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Political Scalpel1 month ago

Oh fantastic, California’s officially declared that if you make a hundred grand a year you’re basically a peasant. Congrats everyone, the American Dream is now “low-income housing applicant.” They raise the minimum wage so the barista can afford rent, then the rent goes up because the landlord has to pay the higher wage, then they raise taxes to “help” the poor, then everything costs more, then they raise the minimum wage again… it’s like a hamster wheel designed by Satan and run by consultants from Sacramento. Steve’s right, it’s a doom loop. At this point the only people who can afford to live in California are the ones writing the laws and the ones selling the laws. Everyone else is just cosplaying as middle class while eating Top Ramen in a $3,200 studio. Beautiful system. Really working.

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Josh Alballero 🇺🇸1 month ago

When $100k counts as low income, the paycheck isn't the problem. The people setting the prices are. Sacramento breaks the market, then sells you the patch and calls it help.

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Beth1 month ago

NO INCOME TAX ON YOUR FIRST $150K! SMART! 👌

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Ellenor Bovay1 month ago

I received unemployment insurance in 2009, it was about $1800 a month. I checked how much it pays now, and its STILL 1800 a month! After 17 years of higher taxes, they haven't raised unemployment ins AT ALL! That's how much Democrats care about working people!

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Tim Norfolk1 month ago

Steve have you heard this…

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RedheadedGinger1 month ago

I just can’t work any harder than I do. And I still can’t make it. Something has got to change.

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Wayne Dunlap1 month ago

I grew up in the best State... California in the 50's - 80's when the Adult Republicans built an amazing place and economy. The Childish Liberals are grossly ruining it - Shameful! Here’s a must read about NEWSOM’S FAILED CALIFORNIA… * Highest Unemployment Rate * Highest Homelessness * Highest Poverty Rate adjusting for Cost of Living * Highest adult Illiteracy Rate * 2nd lowest % of Home Ownership * Highest individual Income Tax Rates * Highest Sales Tax * Highest Capital Gains Tax * 2nd highest Electricity Rates * 2nd highest Water Rates * 2nd highest cost of owning a home - 59% higher than the national average * Highest COL - 45% higher than the national average (INCLUDING CA) * Highest Gas Taxes & Prices raising annually every July. Yet only 3 States’ highways are ranked worse than CA * 8th highest median homeowner Property Tax bill - 21.6% higher than TX * By FAR the highest fees for building a home or apartment * 2nd highest per prisoner incarceration cost * Highest traffic ticket costs (over triple the national average) * K-12 CA teachers last year received the highest average salary of $95,000+ Yet CA students score 39th out of the 48 states that test their pupils * CA fees for building a tract home are $40K to $150K - the national average is under $10K * And finally, CA has Highest % of residents fleeing to other states! Perhaps there's a connection? UPDATED March 2025 by Richard Rider

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NickyDare 🇺🇸🇮🇩1 month ago

Our food budget for just two people is now around $3,000-$4,000 a month. Groceries, basics, and eating out occasionally. And this is already cutting here and there. That’s how insane the cost of living has become. Prices have gone up significantly! everywhere.

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Jade1 month ago

Absolutely Gavin Newsom is the worst Governor California has ever had .. He is a crook 🇺🇸🤬

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Nicole Sax1 month ago

The cost of eating an occasional meal in a restaurant has become crazy. They raised the base wage (before tips) of servers. The restaurants had to raise menu prices to pay their servers. Now a meal costs 30-40% higher than it used to, and we’re expected to tip 20% on top of that.

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Emily Heebner1 month ago

Let's Fix California! Vote for Steve Hilton and his Golden Ticket :Romero, Gates & Morgan! #Californians

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Barn_Cat1 month ago

When I was hired, minimum wage was $8/hr, and now McD’s pays a kid $22/hr. The increases for insurance and taxes have absorbed any possible raises I’ve had; my value has gone down as inflation drives costs up.

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Dave Gill1 month ago

Hang in there Steve! We need you!

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California Derp1 month ago

I just paid my car registration...10 year old car $230 a year. Missed the due date so they tacked on an additional $95. Paid at a "self serve" DMV kiosk, a 1.95% service fee. My 1993 truck tags are due, $245 plus a $150 smog check. STOP THE MADNESS...VOTE STEVE HILTON

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Pete1 month ago

My wife and I are currently living comfortably on 280 acres in the mountains on half that amount.

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D1 month ago

STOP THE INSANITY VOTE 4 STEVE HILTON‼️🔥🇺🇲

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GrouchoMAGA KAG Trump🇺🇸🇺🇸1 month ago

Cost of Oil, fuel, electricity, & water determines price of everything Oil’s the biggest @GavinNewsom has created conditions to keep us in drought restrictions Newsom let 100’s of trillions of gallons of water run off because he refuses to build dams & closes dams

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blu_caller21 month ago

You can't get into office soon enough! California is a fucking disaster

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Stacie1 month ago

I would be more likely to move back to California if they elected Hilton. But of course they're not going to do this. 🤦‍♀️

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Hugh Cross1 month ago

Steve Hilton can save California. Unfortunately the majority of the population is too ignorant.

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CreativePen✍️🇺🇸🤔1 month ago

😳 I am emotionally invested in this election. I just simply can’t take it anymore. I can’t wait.

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Don W. Zylstra1 month ago

The current administration is the most economically ignorant one in history: vote these people out.

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MAGA VIRAL REELS1 month ago

We are the fourth largest economy in the world. Every single person in every category should be flourishing here the citizens of California should be getting money back from this fourth largest economy.

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Ad Deum Ire1 month ago

The California Democrat party needs to be shoved into the ocean to make a coral reef….

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Perseverance1 month ago

And now it’s tires! Pathetic.

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Gary Waskul1 month ago

Yes, You need 10,000 signs

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West Coast Pelican1 month ago

Steve Hilton supported Musk's DOGE, arguably the biggest fraud on the American people (debt now $40 TRILLION). He supported Trump's economic policies. He supported the war in Iran. He even supported BREXIT.... This guy shouldn't be trusted with anything of importance.

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John Hess1 month ago

Please, assign or get if takes smart 6th graders to color provide graphs of all proposals and all actual taxes from airport tax to income taxes. ( savings tax)That affects or takes a chunk out the check at end of day. A graph thats presented & readable extends or does goes miles

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Roman1 month ago

They are also pocketing it.

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A Sovereign Bïtch1 month ago

How about you get paid according to your experience and your skill sets?

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Scott 𝕏 1 month ago

Is that why you voted for $4 trillion in phony billionaire tax cuts that allows the super-wealthy to buy more real estate and jack up the rental markets? 🤡 #MAGACultMorons

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Jackson B1 month ago

The poverty line in CA, when you adjust for cost of living, is upwards of 400% of the federal poverty line - meaning the effective poverty line for a family of 4 in this economic hell hole is $165000/yr

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