Chris Rufo

And that's where you get the indirect beneficiary.

One of the most powerful unions in California is of course, the Union of Healthcare Workers, which is trying to pass this

wealth tax, which has tens of thousands of members that benefit from the system being engorged with public funds.

And so in many ways, the unions see this as a form of corruption that simply expands the pie.

It's a really interesting question.

There's the direct beneficiary and the indirect beneficiary.

And then they get a cut of that.

They forward that cut, part of that cut to the Democrat politicians in the legislature, to the governor's reelection campaigns.

Let's talk about Medi-Cal, which is California's healthcare system for the poor.

During his time in office, Gavin Newsom has almost doubled public expenditure on Medi-Cal.

And all of this money, oftentimes at arm's length, not directly, but indirectly,

It's something now like $200 billion a year in public spending in California, which is bigger than the GDP of many, many countries around the world.

it really pays the bills and greases this corruption wheel.

And the Democrats know that there's no political opposition, there's no media opposition, there's no activist opposition.

We know from government estimates that between 10% and 25% of Medi-Cal is lost to outright fraud, criminals who take that money and in many cases send it overseas.

They have virtually total control, like a Mexican one-party state system over California, that they can operate a massive fraud scheme with impunity, everybody gets paid, and all they have to do is just keep that lid on the pot, keep the corruption at a simmer, and hope that it doesn't boil over.

And so you're asking, well, what interest does someone like Gavin Newsom or state Democrats have in allowing this to continue?

And that's where you get the indirect beneficiary.

One of the most powerful unions in California is, of course, the Union of Healthcare Workers, which is trying to pass this

wealth tax, which has tens of thousands of members that benefit from the system being engorged with public funds.