Looks like liberals have raised the limit on allowable theft in California. When they effectively legalized shoplifting, criminals were given license to steal up to $950 worth of goods:

Why is shoplifting so rampant? Because state law holds that stealing merchandise worth $950 or less is just a misdemeanor, which means that law enforcement probably won’t bother to investigate, and if they do, prosecutors will let it go.

To the greedy Democrats who rule over the erstwhile Golden State, $950 is chump change. Unless police show up to arrest Gavin Newsom soon, we can assume the cutoff has risen to at least $7 billion:

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Wednesday to pull federal grants for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) after it spent nearly $7 billion in taxpayer funds over a decade and a half without laying a single foot of track.

California allowing chains like Walgreens to be looted out of the state pales in comparison.

Originally passed as a ballot initiative in 2008, the 800-mile rail line was supposed to be completed in two phases on a $33 billion budget by 2020, with a main line connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles and branches stretching north to Sacramento and south to San Diego

Why federal taxpayers should have to finance California ballot initiatives is left unexplained.

By 2019, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that there was no path forward after costs ballooned to $77.3 billion and the project was drawn down to a 171-mile section between Merced and Bakersfield.

The Big Beautiful Blowout is awful in terms of inflating the national debt — but not compared to what will happen if Newsom makes it to the White House.

On a tip from Jack D.