California Government Is the Real ‘Junk Fee’ Offender

Democrats are still trying to get political traction for President Joe Biden’s remarkable claim that among the gravest threats facing America — gasoline, police, Marjorie Taylor Greene — is the specter of hidden fees in commercial transactions.

But the president’s message doesn’t seem to have landed, perhaps because most of us get the irony: Democrats are silent on the myriad ways in which government acts like an exotic, multi-armed religious god, an omnipresent deity with at least one hand in every pocket.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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Democrats are still trying to get political traction for President Joe Biden’s remarkable claim that among the gravest threats facing America — gasoline, police, Marjorie Taylor Greene — is the specter of hidden fees in commercial transactions.

But the president’s message doesn’t seem to have landed, perhaps because most of us get the irony: Democrats are silent on the myriad ways in which government acts like an exotic, multi-armed religious god, an omnipresent deity with at least one hand in every pocket.