California spending up 50% per capita since 2019

(The Center Square) – California’s annual state spending is up 50% per capita, or $106.3 billion, since 2019, the first year Gov. Gavin Newsom took office, highlighting the state’s growing budget woes. 

According to taxpayer advocates, the state government has increased spending, despite the state’s constitutionally-mandated balanced budget requirement, by over-estimating future revenues.

“The Newsom administration and the Legislature have been recklessly over-projecting revenue to meet the requirement for a balanced budget while increasing spending. They have not been honest with the public about the cost of meeting the state’s renewable energy targets, the cost of new entitlement programs, or the cost of increasingly lucrative contracts for public employees,” wrote Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Vice President of Communications Susan Shelley in an email to The Center

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