Steve Hilton

It costs four or five times as much to build anything in California as in neighboring states.

So that's where the budget's going.

So you look at the money.

There was an audit done not that long ago, $24 billion on homelessness with no discernible impact.

The problem just got worse.

So the money is, it's not like we need to spend more money.

We need to cut the budget of California, not spend more money.

So there's two things I want to do.

It's like reduce the budget.

Because we've got to cut taxes.

That's the other thing.

We have the highest taxes in the country for the worst outcomes.

We've got to cut taxes for a start.

And then we've got to spend the money where it needs to be, specifically on mental health.

Let's look at that.

So exactly as you say, a lot of the people are low income.

So when you talk about mental health care, it's part of the health care system.

And for low income people, that means it's Medicaid, which is Medi-Cal in California.

And that is federally reimbursed.

It's very connected to the federal healthcare system.