Skelton: Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost

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Skelton: Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost
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Newsom and California lawmakers surely miss that $9.5 billion as they struggle to balance state budget by June 15.

It’s budget season in Sacramento and there are bound to be screwups. Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators are paying now for a huge flub two years ago.

So it seemed like a grand idea to throw nearly $10 billion out a Capitol window at people who really didn’t care whether they got any of it or not. I got $200 that I absolutely didn’t need. Friends making much more also were sent cards — and felt a little sheepish about it. Right now, Newsom and legislative leaders are struggling behind closed doors to agree on a budget that must be balanced. At least on paper. They’re working on a revised $288-billion proposal the governor sent the Legislature last month.

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