Victor Davis Hanson

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The Victor Davis Hanson Show · History of Income Tax Amendment 16 and News of the Week · 1 Mar 2025 podcast

21% of the people live below the poverty line. You're bleeding out 300 of the most productive, 300,000 of the most productive citizens are leaving. Gavin, the reason they're doing that is you have the highest tax. And I didn't mention the gas tax. That's the highest. You have the highest property tax. the highest housing values, the highest gas tax, the most regulations, the highest income tax.

And we wanted something in return. And what we got are crime-ridden cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, full of homeless people. And we have schools, the LA public school system is dysfunctional. And we have a teacher's unions that run these schools and they don't work. We have infrastructure that is among the worst.

I think the American trucking industry has got the California freeway system down either last or close to the last. And I know that per miles driven, the 99 freeway is the most dangerous freeway. It's not even a freeway, really, in some places.

So you have the 101 that's decrepit, the 99 that's decrepit, and then he's spending $15, $16 billion to continue Jerry Brown's mad idea of a high-speed rail, which is beyond the ability of the present competency of California. California's elite whether you're talking about the government lawyers or the government politicians or the government engineers, they're not competent. They can't do this.

And if they... So they had... 2009, we voted for this high-speed rail. We were talking about $30 billion, $40 billion, $50 billion. They have spent over $15 billion. They have not raised, laid one foot of track. And now, are we going to get the 500 miles from L.A. through to Hatchipi, to Bakersfield, to Fresno, up to Chowchilla, over to Pacheco, and get to the Bay Area? No.

We're doing phase one travel. Minus. That is Bakersfield to Merced. I'm a chauvinist of the San Joaquin Valley. So everybody, I love Bakersfield. I love Merced, but it's not the time, the place you want to go take a high-speed rail. If you get from that 178 miles, if you get there in three hours driving, you're not going to feel cheated that you got there in an hour.

because you didn't get there in an hour. And by the way, it's not going to go 250 miles an hour. They've already downgraded it. They've already showed you what the ticket price would be. They can't run it. Look at BART. It's a complete mess. It's just a spoil system for unions and DEI and all of that stuff. And it's so tragic because Jerry Brown's father, Edmund Brown, was very gifted.

He sued the Sierra Club to create the California Water Project, and they approved the California Water Project in 1968. Five years later, they had the first phase of the aqueduct, and that's 400 miles long. They had it all the way from the Delta down to San Luis, about 80 miles. They had the O'Neill forebay, and they were pumping it over the highest pinstocks in the world into Los Angeles.

And then phase two, where they had a lateral into San Bernardino, and then phase three, they were all done within 10 years. That was a brilliant group of people, the engineers, the politicians, the lawyers, the workers. They created the most sophisticated aqueduct system in less than 10 years and much of it in five years. This is now 15 years, 15 years, and we haven't laid one foot. And

When I go down my avenue, most of the I see workers are, they're spraying graffiti, they're sandblasting graffiti over the bridges. Remember what he did, everybody? They took all of the overpasses that were most highly seen and they started those first and then they had big billboards, your taxpayer... dollars at work, high-speed rail, sophisticated overpass. And then you drove down the 99 or 41.

You saw them. Oh, my gosh. But they didn't do anything in between. In between, they were hung up for years and lawsuits with farmers and preservationists. It was a mess. So that's Gavin. And he's not going to talk about any of that stuff. And I wish he would. And why is he doing it now? He's doing it now because... He his little antenna have pricked up anything. Hmm. Let me see.

They're opposing Trump, but they're gone nutty. All they do is scream and yell and they call Elon Musk untrustworthy and Hitler and Mussolini and they have all these horrible names. They scream and yell at Congress and yet. They're dying on the altar of transgenderism in Maine. The border is closed and they think that everybody wanted it wide open and another three million.

These people are crazy in my party. There's going to be a little seam in the next election for a liberal who sounds a little traditional. I'll have a little bit of I'll get a little teaspoon of Al Gore and Bill Clinton circa 1992, 96. So I will have a podcast. And the thing I'll do about it is I want to talk to mega people. I'm inclusive. I believe in inclusivity. D-E-I.

It's not diversity, equity. It's inclusivity. So I want all you mega people to call in. We'll kind of joust them when it's all over and I lie to you about how great everything is. We all part friends. I say, you know, Gavin's a miracle worker. He's a can-do guy. That's what he's doing. It's not going to work.

Well, he's going to do exactly what he did with Donald Trump. So- He went to the White House and he begged, begged, begged. And he said, and then Trump came out and didn't want to meet him because who wants to meet him? It's all, who wants to meet him with his Abercrombie and Fitch vest, his slick back hair, and then He looks for the latest camera or wherever the cameras are.

Then he gets a shovel or he puts on gloves and picks up trash. It's all fake photo op guy. That's who he is. So he comes out and he forces himself onto the tarmac to meet Trump and basically said, we need $40 billion. And I'm so wasteful. I started the year with $77 billion deficit because I opened the borders and we have Medi-Cal and they... We need the $40 billion.

But you're such a wonderful person. And I've always liked you. We've always got along. Flattering Trump. So Trump goes back and he said, I got the $40 billion. And then he goes to the legislature. I need $50 million because we're going to sue that SOB. And that's what he's doing. And that's what he always does. So this whole thing as part, this is the podcast version of Kissing Up to Trump.

It has nothing to do with his ideology or his politics. He is a captive, even if he wanted to be independent, he's a captive of an insane assembly and state senate. And they're all run by coastal elites from San Diego to Santa Rosa. And their main, they have two main agendas.

Green, green, green, green, destroy nuclear energy, natural gas, and illegal immigration, illegal immigration, and identity politics. That's it.

Gosh, they might as well burn it up if it wasn't. Meanwhile, Lee Zeldin's got the EPA, and I think they've already helped green light the removal of toxic stuff out of there. They should just let Trump come in with a czar and just say, we will have everybody

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