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California’s Government Diaper Dispensary Serves Fraudsters, Not Families

Yes, we should be skeptical of Newsom’s crony-run diaper giveaway, and here’s why.

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Babies are proverbially easy to steal from, and California is going to swipe the very diapers off their bottoms.

Of course, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised the opposite, announcing a program to provide “free” diapers to newborns. This is meant to appear as a generous and pro-baby plan, and Newsom was even applauded by some pro-life and pro-family writers and activists. 

But this is California, notorious for fraud and boondoggles ranging from fake hospices to the high-speed rail train to nowhere. So, in evaluating this program, it is pointless to try to parse the projected cost-per-diaper because California cannot accurately estimate such costs. That high-speed rail project was supposed to cost $33 billion and be done in 2020; it is now projected to cost $231 billion with no end in sight.

As this suggests, it would likely be far more cost-effective just to ship diapers from big retailers such as Amazon, Costco, and........

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