Steve Hilton
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3,771 appearances
18 recordings
14 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Steve Hilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and nonsense people have to deal with on a small scale.
I met a lady, she runs a small independent winery in wine country, Sonoma.
I think it was either Sonoma or Napa.
She told me she just wanted to expand her patio.
for more guests, from 30 to 50 guests.
It took her six years, a million dollars.
Fees, permits, environmental reports she had to pay for, all this.
That story is typical.
I tell that story to other business owners, oh yeah, I've got one like that.
Just everything is layered on to make it so expensive.
And so that's why that budget is so high, because everything costs so much because of this,
Insane over regulation and a lot of it is driven I mean if if you ask me that where's the real cost and hassle of doing anything in California comes from come from Basically over the years.
I've been studying it now and traveling the state and meeting businesses and regular people It's really there are three underlying drivers the unions.
We've mentioned them the The second one is litigation lawyers endless lawsuit costs
Huge litigation.
Everything's a lawsuit.
Like there's an estimate that insurance policies, for example, that's one of the big issues, one of the most annoying things for people.
You can't get insurance, so it's so expensive.
They've left the state, but one of the reasons is you've got this massive insurance litigation risk.
It's called the tort tax.
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