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Our Healthcare in California is at Risk

AB2200 has a jaw-dropping price tag of nearly $400 billion per year which is $100 billion more than the current $297 billion state budget in total.  This astounding cost including the threat to Californians’ access to quality healthcare reveals the disconnected radical politicians who are detached from the reality of our state’s fiscal condition.  We can’t just continue to put everything we want on the state credit card. 

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Nevada County Lurches Toward Dystopian Future

The California state budget nearly equals the federal budget for the entire country of Russia. Over the past 25 years, the budget for Nevada County has nearly quadrupled in size, exploding to about $368,000,000 annually. With this exorbitant amount of money, has Nevada County solved the homeless problem? Affordable housing? Reduced crimes against the people? Hardly. Indeed, the homeless problem is worse, there is no affordable housing in Nevada County, and our community is less safe now than 25 years ago.

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