If there’s one thing at which California’s progressive political class excels, it’s burning through taxpayer money.

Whether it’s throwing billions at the homeless problem with little result or tossing billions more down the drain on a doomed high-speed rail project, state lawmakers have repeatedly shown their disdain for fiscal responsibility.

Even seemingly mundane infrastructure projects in the Golden State manage to soak the taxpayers. Remember the $20,000 trash bins in San Francisco? And now we have the ongoing Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing project over U.S. Highway 101 near Los Angeles in Agoura Hills, a story of California inertia and excess in action.

Ten years ago, officials proposed a bridge to allow animals to cross the Ventura Freeway in the Santa Monica Mountains. The L

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