I remember being told by Democrats that illegals add money to the treasury, not take it away
California faces unlikely tax revolt amid billions in illegal immigrant healthcare costs
As California grapples with soaring Medi-Cal costs — including billions spent on healthcare for immigrants without legal status — Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers have backed a revised health-plan tax in response to new federal restrictions, a move critics warn could shift more costs onto privately insured Californians.
The tax has united an unlikely coalition of doctors and health insurers against him, with critics warning it could make California even more expensive.
To preserve billions in Medi-Cal financing after Washington tightened the rules governing health-plan taxes used to draw federal matching funds, Newsom backed a redesigned tax that would raise the levy on private health plans beginning in 2027 if federally approved, potentially increasing premiums for their customers. Providing healthcare to illegal immigrants cost California an estimated $12.4 billion in 2025, the Associated Press reported.
“The One Big Beautiful Bill Act limited California’s ability to target the tax just on Medicaid insurers, so California is proposing to raise the health insurance tax on people that have private coverage … the estimates are that would increase insurance for families by $400 a year,” he told Fox News Digital. “That is just because California doesn’t want to deal with its unsustainable spending … there are many people on the program who are not eligible for the program, and that is not even accounting for the fact that California has expanded Medicaid to all unauthorized immigrants in the state.”
So, instead of booting illegals off public systems, cracking down on fraud, waste, and graft, and being fiscally responsible the People’s Republic Of California government, run by Democrats in full, since there are not enough Republicans to stop them, will simply just take more money from the peasants.
The California Medical Association and California Association of Health Plans are suing to block the tax increase, not on the grounds that it benefits illegal immigrants, but over allegations that the measure violates voter-approved limits on health-plan taxes and restrictions on how the resulting revenue can be spent. The duo uniting to challenge the tax is notable because doctors and insurance companies often find themselves on opposite sides of healthcare debates.
Proposition 35, the initiative in question, limits how much California can tax commercial health-plan enrollment, constraining the state’s options as it tries to comply with new federal rules governing the much higher tax previously imposed on Medi-Cal enrollment. The proposition was passed with overwhelming support from Californian voters.
No one thinks the Democrats who run the PRC give a damn about Prop 35, right? That they won’t find a way around it, right?
Cali collects 9.5 billion dollars in state and local taxes from undocumented residents
This is one reason Cali will NOT have a budget deficit 2026 to 2027 despite the suck Trump economy
Cali does have large future pension liabilities as workers retire. They will need a population increase
It seems the guy using an alias didn’t read the article closely enough. He wrote:
This was in the main article:
It’s been a long time since first-grade arithmetic, but it would seem to me that $9.5 billion in state and local taxes is a smaller amount than $12.4 billion in health care costs alone. That’s $2.9 billion of increased deficit spending, not even counting housing subsidies, welfare, the costs of educating their children, additional costs for police, fire and, of course, jails, roads, bridges, &c, &c, &c.
But I should denounce myself for using very basic math, since we know that math is raaaaacist!
That is only the money paid in state and local taxes.
You forgot to add in the federal taxes that they must pay for having ITNs
I baited you on that
I knew you would fall for it.now you are going to have to look that up
It is another 4.5 billion ????
Dunning Kruger. Again
And again
He who laughs best……
According to the California Department of Finance, the State of California will spend more than $8.4 billion on taxpayer-funded Medicaid health benefits for illegal aliens this fiscal year, over $5 billion more than initially estimated
9.5 is bigger than 8.5
But, but, but, compassion!
I have no problem with private individuals giving generously to the illegals, but no, taxpayer dollars, extorted from free people under the threat of jail, should not be so spent.
The voters in Cali feel differently and they probably do not even feel bad for disregarding your opinion.