California’s secretary of state announced last week that the Billionaire Tax Act, an initiative supported by the state’s labor movement, has qualified for the November ballot. The supposedly one-time tax on individuals with assets exceeding $1 billion would raise an estimated $100 billion over five years. And according to a new Department of Health and Human Services report, California will need every penny of that revenue to keep welfare dollars flowing to the state’s millions of illegal immigrants.

In addition to spending billions of federal and state taxpayer dollars on Medicaid benefits for illegal immigrants, illegal immigrant households also collect thousands of dollars in welfare benefits for their citizen children, including from food stamps, Supplemental Security Income, and the earned income tax credit.