Beset on all sides by regulators, highest-in-the-nation taxes, environmentalists, identitarians, and a political establishment committed to class war, California business owners may want to send thanks and a muffin basket to Representative Vince Fong.

Fong, a Bakersfield, Calif., Republican, has introduced HR 8892, the Creating Accountability in Loan Repayment Act. CAL Repayment (you get the acronymic joke) would require states with outstanding federal unemployment-insurance debt to use future flexible federal aid to repay those loans before spending the money elsewhere.

At present, California is the only member of that club -- which is why some Capitol Hill insiders call Fong’s bill the ...