California budget punts on the big issues

After lawmakers sent Gov. Gavin Newsom a budget plan that he signed on Monday, a northern California Assemblyman told a newspaper that, “the choices we have to make here are not perfect.” That summarizes this cobbled-together budget with nearly perfect understatement.
The budget attempts to deal with a projected $54 billion deficit caused by the pandemic shutdowns, but mainly delays hard decisions until some future date. This is not the worst effort we’ve ever seen, as legislat