The outlook for California’s budget is, of course, bleak. I say “of course” because most states are in serious trouble: Federal support makes up close to a third of most state budgets, sometimes more—and as the Trump Administration has set about destroying state funding to give tax cuts to billionaires, the situation has left governors and legislators looking for ways to cut programs.

We keep hearing terms like “tough budget choices” and “challenges.” That’s politics-speak for austerity, for more devastation of the remaining program that help the poor and working class.

But a new report from the Action Center on Race and the Economy offers another alternative: State governments have plenty of ways to raise new revenue from taxes on the rich and on big corporations. There’s enough money o

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