{"id":452327,"date":"2026-09-03T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452327\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:50:13","slug":"california-taxes-make-the-state-a-bad-choice-to-retire-joel-pollak-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452327\/","title":{"rendered":"California taxes make the state a &#8216;bad choice&#8217; to retire, Joel Pollak warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">\n              California Post Opinion Editor Joel Pollak discusses why California is a bad choice for retirees living on a fixed income. He highlights high state taxes, inheritance taxes and pension taxation as key factors driving retirees to states like Florida.\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Retiring in California is a bad choice due to aggressive state taxation, warns Joel Pollak. He explains how high inheritance taxes and pension taxation drive people to tax-friendly states like Florida. Pollak argues that high tax revenues are spent on healthcare for illegal immigrants rather than supporting residents, making comfortable retirement extremely difficult in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Post Opinion Editor Joel Pollak discusses why California is a bad choice for retirees living on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-452327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}