Steve Hilton

It's because it's so badly run and it's impossible to live here.

And they chase you out.

I mean, the business, you know, I used to run businesses, started companies here and back in England and just including restaurants.

I mean, just basic, you know,

These businesses that are so precious to the heart of a community, bars, restaurants, all that, just it's a nightmare.

I mean, there's so many stories.

I get them the whole time.

Every day you collect because people tell you their stories.

A woman who tried restaurant owner in wine country near where I live up in the Bay Area, near San Francisco.

She tried to, well, she did eventually expand.

She built an extension to her patio.

more guests to increase the number of guests from 35 to 50. you need a permit to go through a process it took six years and a million dollars what in fees lawyers inspections you have to pay for the inspection environmental report this that it's typical i mean there's something called this is going to sound obscure but it's a really good example of

the insanity uh just in terms of just regular you know operating anything in california you've got something called paga the private attorney general act passed in 2004. it outsources the enforcement of state labor law to just regular lawyers attorneys instead of the government

has become a total racket for lawyers trial attorneys as they say um who are by the way the second biggest donors to democrat politicians that's why it's happening number one donors are the unions that's why the unions run everything number two

the lawyers private attorney general has turned into an extortion racket for lawyers and the government so the tiniest infraction like this made up you know you spent spell someone's name wrong on the pay stub your break if you're running a restaurant and after every five hours you're supposed to give you know have a certain number of minutes of break one minute late

And you're hit with a lawsuit.

And these are costing businesses.

They have to settle because you don't want to go through the process of going to trial.

60 grand, 70 grand, 100 grand, bigger businesses, millions a year.

Just the cost of doing business.