Examples of California State laws and programs that are socialist please.
You're kidding, right?
Like many socialist welfare states, California has high taxes and a generous state welfare programs. This penalizes people that work and encourages sloth.
California income tax tops out at 10 or 11 percent. California has a sales tax as well, at 8%. California has high automobile taxes.
California gives medical benefits to illegal immigrants.
Many California cities and counties have rather draconian hoops that a property owner must jump through just to remodel a house. Some counties and cities have rent control laws that prevent a landlord from raising the rent to a market level, which further reduces the supply of housing, becuase no one wants to be a landlord if they can't profit from raising the rent. Moreover, California landlord-tenant law is so biased in favor of the tenant that it can take months to get a non-paying tenant out.
Because of zoning laws, much of the open space in California cannot be developed, further driving up the cost of land and housing.
Instead of being guided by the free market, most of California is controlled by leftists who know what's best for everybody.