How California’s regulatory burden affects everything from garbage to taxes

We are all familiar with the impact of regulations. Sometimes they are on your face, such as the taxes we pay or the time it takes to navigate the DMV. At other times, they are some annoying annoyance, like some states need to allow children’s lemonade stands that allow allowable, or when issuing a plate license requires more training time than EMT.

Sometimes, they can even affect how you get your trash out.

That's what we've seen in California, where the combination of national, federal and county regulations has led to the closure of landfills serving Los Angeles County. Local citizens, landfills and elected officials are dealing with a challenging and rare chemical reaction in landfills. This is a large-scale cause involving federal and numerous state regulators.

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But this is where progressive rubber fits the reality road: people aren't stopping throwing away the garbage, so closing doesn't solve anything. It just adds to the cost and complexity of garbage removal, as county taxes are now paying for shipping costs to landfills further afield.

Often, government policies are not based on helping people, but on the personal and professional goals of politicians. Is there any financial collapse? Regulate the banks (after bailing them)! Is health care expensive? Put strict regulations on them (even if the cost is increased)! Close all restaurants during Covid (but please open restaurants serving Hollywood)!

These grand policies have a real impact on real people. Walmart received a lot of praise for supporting the work when the federal government raised its minimum wage about two decades ago. The problem is that Walmart's salary is already It is above the minimum wage, so it has no impact on the company. However, it has had many impacts on its collapsed small local competitors.

This is good for Walmart. For small business owners? not much.

California is a poster of policies that attract attention but have positive impact on people with minimal flexibility. One of the highest income tax (sponsored social welfare)? Check. Crazy cost of living (high taxes caused by housing regulations and statewide in cities like San Francisco)? Check. A large-scale environmental bureaucracy somehow depletes fire fluids, empty reservoirs, and garbage removal is more expensive?

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Check, check, check. As we've seen, there's not even a landfill – or your trash can – safe.

No wonder the residents of Jinzhou cannot escape fast enough. Those who have been forgotten may not have enough work to support them. From 2018 to 2021 alone, 352 companies moved their headquarters out of California to more friendly states because they didn’t want to pay the state’s 8.84% corporate tax rate, the eighth highest in the U.S. company tax rate. Instead, they will head to states such as Texas without corporate taxes.

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As taxes for a minority decrease, taxes can be reduced for luxury plans created by elected officials in California. This means that residents and businesses who now decide to stick with it now face higher taxes, increased cost of living, and higher costs of garbage collection.

Regulation has a real impact, especially in states like California, which are over-regulated and even garbage collections are affected. This is a basic municipal service that is crucial to the health and well-being of all residents. But maybe they won't be residents for longer. Maybe those table conversations will be about what state they should be packed and moved to.