Kevin Kiley: “it is undeniably true that many Americans continue to struggle with the cost of living in this country, but what is also…”

“it is undeniably true that many Americans continue to struggle with the cost of living in this country, but what is also true is that those struggles are not felt uniformly throughout the country, that prices are much higher in certain places than others. In my own State of California, we have the highest cost of living in the country and our Governor, Gavin Newsom, was asked about this recently on CNN. Why does California have the highest cost of living in the country? The Governor had no answer, but the answer is obvious. It is the State's failed policies that have--through this laboratory of democracy experiment we have in this country where you can compare the results of different policies side by side, State by State--driven up the price of just about everything in California. We have the highest gas prices in the country, the highest electricity prices in the country, the second or third highest water bills in the country, the second or third highest grocery prices in the country, the highest taxes in the country, and the highest housing costs in all of the continental United States. The list goes on, which is why when you look at the Census Bureau's measure of the real poverty rate, which accounts for the cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate in the entire country.”