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   However unintentional, Democrats, who have controlled both houses of   
   the Legislature for 56 of the past 62 years, have created policies   
   that increase both the cost of living and the discriminatory effects   
   on those who can least afford them.   
      
   California is a textbook example of structural racism.   
      
   Thanks to state policies enacted over the past 62 years, we now have   
   the third highest cost of living in the nation. We have the second   
   highest home prices, nearly the highest rents and the fourth highest   
   per capita expenditures for health care. We pay more than $1 a   
   gallon above the national average for fuel. That’s just for   
   starters.   
      
   The effect of those high costs is not only oppressive to lower-   
   income workers and their families, it’s discriminatory. Wealthier   
   families, over-represented by Asians and whites, continued to build   
   income and wealth even during the pandemic. They never stopped   
   buying homes in the most expensive markets and best school   
   districts. Their wealth increased as home values appreciated at   
   artificially high rates because government policies created a   
   housing shortage.   
      
   California ranked 47th in income equality before the pandemic   
   because our high cost of living leaves lower-income families living   
   paycheck to paycheck. More than a third were living in or near   
   poverty and over half of those Californians were Black or Hispanic.   
   Policies that favor Asians and whites while oppressing Blacks and   
   Hispanics are a textbook example of structural racism.   
      
   Exorbitant home prices and rents force lower-income workers and   
   families to pay a daunting share of their income for housing. They   
   endure longer commutes to work and are forced to live in both   
   overcrowded and substandard housing. This lack of affordable housing   
   has caused homelessness to spike — and we lead the nation by more   
   than 75% over the nearest state.   
      
   Children from lower-income families are effectively excluded from   
   our best schools. A Brookings Institute study revealed that it costs   
   nearly $11,000 a year more to live near a high-scoring public school   
   than it does to live near one that is low-scoring.   
      
   High health care costs leave lower-income Californians with poorer   
   access to health care. They’re more likely to skip important doctor   
   visits and vaccinations. This remains one of the reasons that   
   Hispanics and Blacks have the highest COVID-19 death rates.   
      
   Democratic politicians talk of ending poverty and structural racism,   
   but they are its unwitting architects. They have controlled both   
   houses of the Legislature in 56 of the last 62 years. They have a   
   fundamental distrust of free-market capitalism. They owe their   
   allegiance to entrenched special interest groups that fiercely   
   resist changes to the rigged system they’ve created. In short, they   
   are incapable of making the bold policy changes to housing,   
   education, health care and health insurance that California   
   desperately needs. However unintentional, comfortable government   
   elites have created policies that increase both the cost of living   
   and the discriminatory effects on those who can least afford them.   
      
   The antidote to these failed policies starts with this seed of   
   truth. The truth is that limited government regulation and free-   
   market capitalism built the largest and strongest middle class in   
   the world. They inspire innovation and entrepreneurship. They make   
   it easier to start or expand a business, increase job opportunities,   
   encourage competition, give consumers more choices and lower the   
   cost of living. The greatest income, wealth, gender and racial   
   equality are rooted in states and countries that embrace these   
   principals. The best housing, health care and education systems are   
   there as well.   
      
   I’m not saying Democratic politicians are racist — but their   
   policies are. I’m not saying they’re trying to keep poor kids out of   
   our best schools — but that’s the effect their housing policies have   
   had. I’m not saying they set out to have us lead the nation in   
   poverty and homelessness or that their goal was to have over a third   
   of Californians living in or near poverty — but that’s the reality.   
      
   What I am saying is that 62 years of domination by one party is   
   enough. It’s time to elect leaders who understand the policy changes   
   required to actually lift up the poor. It’s time to vote Republican.   
      
   https://calmatters.org/commentary/2021/08/democrats-are-unwitting-   
   architects-of-californias-structural-racism/   
      
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