Gov. Brown’s May Revise makes clear California has a spending problem, not a revenue problem

Editor’s note: Breaking views are thoughts from individual members of the editorial board on today’s headlines.
Gov. Jerry Brown has released a May Revise budget proposal for the coming fiscal year featuring $137.6 billion in general fund expenditures. For context, the enacted general fund budget for fiscal year 2011-12 called for $85.9 billion in general fund expenditures.
One might think that for all the money they have and spend, California’s politicians would have