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Where does your money go?

California has a generational $68B deficit.
The wealth tax is accelerating it.

Follow the money, across state lines.

Budget at a Glance

$498.6B

Total state budget

2025-26

Agency Summary JSON LAO Historical Budget Data

$269.2B

Health & Human Services

54.0% of all spending

Agency Summary JSON LAO Historical Budget Data

$17.8B

Corrections

93K inmates. Down 42.5%, budget up 40.2% since 2010-11.

LAO CDCR Budget Report LAO Incarceration Cost

$143,000

Avg state worker comp

Private sector: $71,000

LAO State Workforce Vacancies

20%

State positions vacant

47,920 of 243,829 authorized jobs

LAO State Workforce Vacancies CalHR Annual Census

San Francisco FY 2024–25

San Francisco spends more per homeless person than California spends to educate a child.

$000,000/homeless person

Homelessness

~8,000 unhoused · $846M budget

$00,000/student

K-12 Education

5.9 million students statewide

5.7x more per homeless person than per student — and the number of unhoused hasn't gone down.

SF HSH Budget (FY24-25)CDE Per-Student Expenditure

City Budgets

Two cities. $30 billion. Very different priorities.

San Francisco$15.9B total

Public Health (incl. SF General)$3.2B

Airport (self-funded)$2.0B

Homelessness & Housing$846M

Police (SFPD)$823M

Fire Department$531M

Sheriff$323M

City-county hybrid. Homelessness budget alone exceeds police. Spends $106K per unhoused person annually.

Los Angeles$14.0B total

Police (LAPD)$2.1B

Pensions & Benefits$1.4B

Fire Department$1.1B

Homelessness (all sources)$952M

Liability Claims$300M

LAPD is 26% of general fund — largest single line item. Pensions + liability claims consume another $1.7B.

SF OpenBook Budget Data LA Open Budget

They proposed a billionaire tax. The billionaires left first.

12 billionaires leaving CA

Page · Brin · Zuckerberg · Ellison · Thiel · Koum · Benioff · Hankey · Spielberg · Snyder · Sacks · Fang

= 1 billionaire leaving · $1.071T total

Employees: 2024 10-K (Alphabet 182K · Meta 67K · Oracle 159K · Palantir 4K · DoorDash 9K), worldwide. Tax: 13.3% CA top rate × est. avg comp.

Your Tax Receipt

You paid thousands to the state last year. Do you know where it went?

State of California

TAX RECEIPT

FY 2025–26

INCOME$125,000

STATE TAX$8,278

EFF. RATE6.6%

Where It Goes

Health & Human Svc$4,470

K-12 Education$1,283

Higher Education$372.50

Corrections$298.00

Transportation$347.67

Natural Resources$264.89

Gov't Operations$231.78

Debt Service$149.00

All Other$860.90

TOTAL$8,278

* $298.00 houses 93.3K inmates at $127,788/ea. $1,283 educates 5.9M students at $18,534/ea. Your corrections share is less than what it costs to educate one student for a month.

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