Gavin Newsom’s New “Affordability” Program Comes In A Box Of Diapers
My latest column for the California Post looks at one of the most revealing things Gavin Newsom has done in a long time — and it comes wrapped in the language of “affordability.”
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When “Affordability” Means More Government
California families are drowning in costs — housing, insurance, electricity, gasoline, groceries, childcare, and just about every other basic expense tied to raising a family in this state. So now Sacramento has decided the answer is… free diapers.
Under a new Gavin Newsom-backed program, families leaving participating hospitals will receive a state-funded box containing 400 diapers for their newborn child. The governor calls this “what affordability looks like,” but that phrase may reveal more about how California’s political class thinks than Newsom intended.
Because there is a deeper question underneath this entire program: Why has California become so expensive that politicians now believe diapers themselves need a statewide government response?
In my full California Post column, I walk through the politics behind the rollout, the nonprofit connections, the broader dependency model Sacramento keeps building, and why this program says far more about California’s governing philosophy than it does about diapers.
This is not really a story about diapers. It is a story about the kind of state California is becoming.
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