State of CaliforniaCandidate for Governor

 Local zoning, outdating laws, long approvals, and massive lack of housing has caused prices to astronomically soar and cause longterm California residents to leave the city. A McKinsey study states we need 3 million more housing units by 2025 to keep up with capacity. First thing we should do is to allow 100 percent residential development on vacant commercial zoned properties as many of these properties have available space and land. Los Angeles does this and they are the fastest-growing housing production in California right now. Also we must reduce the approval/rejection time of housing projects to 6-12 months so that local jurisdictions can make quicker decisions and building can be completed quicker. I will enforce this w/ a punishment of a $30,000 fine for 3 repeat offenses and a loss of local authority for development projects for a 4th. I also strongly support and propose an amended Senator [Scott] Wiener’s SB 827 bill that allocates for 4-8 story transit housing within .5 miles of transit in San Francisco. I would like to amend his bill to include tech companies that have more than 2,000 employees, tech companies that are coming into California with 500-plus employees. We will include a vacancy tax and have anti displacement provisions. This will now compensate for these companies bringing all these jobs without creating housing for them. This solution will create millions of housing units for California, lower the price of the housing market and increase mobility in California as more people using transit.

In addition, we will use 3-D printing technology to create low cost affordable housing to massively increase our housing supply.

Ax the tax and let’s relax: We are in a budget surplus of about $6 billion and now it is the time to reward the grieving Californian taxpayers. We don’t need more tax revenue but much better allocation of our budget. I will help enact huge tax cuts for California and lower regulations on small businesses to encourage economic growth. Sales tax will go from 7.25 percent to 5 percent. Top marginal income tax rate will go from 13.3 percent to 4.9 percent. Property tax rate will go from 0.75 percent to 0.5 percent. Lowering taxes for all people will help stimulate the economy. 

Force each health insurance company to provide a health monitoring device out of their profits to each of their patients. This will save billions in preventive costs in healthcare for people who struggle to afford premiums and deductibles. 

Venture California: We will create a venture capital fund of $100 million that will invest in California companies that help fix the water shortage problem, housing crisis and healthcare epidemic. Water has become an extremely scarce commodity that California is in desperate need of for droughts, fires and farms. We must use innovative strategies with these funded companies, such as desalination. An increased demand for housing and outdated regulations has destroyed the housing market and made affordable housing nonexistent for Californians. We must pursue efficient building strategies with companies to effectively increase the supply of housing in California. Lastly, we must invest in companies that will develop and create the next generation of health and medical devices. This will improve health and cut health care costs.

I will cut many inefficient projects that are currently being enacted in california and redistribute money and create new forms of tax revenue from the legalization of state wide gambling. 

I will legalize statewide gambling and that will generate billions in dollars in tax revenue which we can divert some of to the unfunded pension liability. If we are legalizing weed to capture the tax revenue then it makes no sense to keep gambling illegal in california as well. 

I will also defund the 10 billion dollar abysmal Water tunnel as it will not be effective in any capacity at solving out water crisis. 

The Great High Speed Railway Trainwreck: We must defund the high speed railway. The high speed railway train is the most inefficient project in California. I will defund and cut the project completely for California. The budget and timeline dramatically changes every couple of years. The budget was $40 billion in 2004 and now it’s reported that the budget is over $77 billion. We were assured that private investors will pay a significant part of this train, but not many private investors have stepped up, which means the burden will continue to fall on the taxpayer. 

With these reallocated funds we will pay 5% including the interest of the unfunded liabilities annualy.

The State needs to create boards for each charters comprised of the parents of students who attend those schools. Those parents will provide detailed anaylsis of the school's agenda and actions to the state who will have the power to defund the charter school based on those reports. 

Any charter school that is found to be negligent with enrollment policies that discourage out of community students to join will be defunded after the 3rd finding. 

We need to streamline the immigration office in California to expedite the immigration process. 5 Billion dollars needs to be reallocated from our inefficient funds including the water tunnel, high speed trainway will be distributed towards UCSIS in order to account for the increased number of applications. 

We also should digitalize the whole process and automate many steps as the physical mailing and handling of papers slows down the process exponentially.