[Mariner]

They'll spend it, of course.

While the piggy bank is not overflowing, it's heavy.

The unions who run California have an affinity for the rainy day fund as it evens employment in a downturn.

[mplc51]

Up Gavin Newsomes nose.............

[BenLurkin]

Return it to the taxpayers.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I live in CA. and I doubt this story with all of the illegals being supported etc. I highly doubt the state has this kind of money in their piggy bank!!!

[mrsmith]

The tax payers can only move out so fast...

[gogeo]

But the analyst’s office recommends the Legislature allocate no more than $1 billion of the surplus to ongoing expenses to avoid having to make cuts to programs during a recession.

Right...

[BigEdLB]

The money will go for state employee pensions. The bought the state elected officials their jobs, and this is the reward

[faithhopecharity]

naturally, the commies in Sacramento will immediately refund the surplus to the taxpayers they extracted it from

and lower the state’s Highest-in-the-Nation tax burden

perhaps by repealing the state’s income tax!?

that would be a great step forward

[American in Israel]

My guess is the new gas tax tax they bait and switched to the general fund brought in this money.

Meanwhile the tax base is fleeing the Facism at a re order rate. Plus, it’s hard to run a silicon valley tech company without power...

This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

[Vince Ferrer]

Forest fire prevention? Haha, just kidding.

[Tonytitan]

7 billion dollar surplus? California? Are you sure this isn’t the Babylon Bee?

[SkyDancer]

To illegals.

[pacificus]

Paging Joe Biden....

Joe Biden, California is on the telephone for you.

[babble-on]

Gosh, I wonder why the Federal Government isn’t running a surplus?

[PCPOET7]

there is no surplus....smoke and mirrors ...my bet is that the reality is a deciphit .

[DannyTN]

Possibilities:

• Politician's pockets
• Monorail!!!
• ICE intererence
• More laws preventing forest management
• Draining more water into the ocean
• Protecting the right to shit on sidewalks
• Walls where politicians live
• Drug promotions
• Epstein's successor
• Normalizing trouples
• Allowing illegals to vote

[artichokegrower]

I live in the unincorporated area of a California county. They just informed us that there is not enough money for fire protection in our area. They want to charge an annual parcel fee for fire protection. I pay state income tax, property tax, almost 10% sales tax and now they want more. Spend that
$7 billion on state constitutionally mandated public protection.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Creative accounting at its best.

[SuperLuminal]

Only, to me as a taxpayer, one question...

Have they paid back the unused high-speed railroad federal-funds as Trump demanded?

[CincyRichieRich]

Sorry, mathematical conclusions from the poor math party are not believable. Color me doubtful.

[House Atreides]

Hmmm.... a drop from the $21.5 billion surplus this tax year for California down to a projected surplus of only $7 billion for the next tax year is quite a plunge for an economy that is booming.

Did California drastically lower its income, sales and gas tax rates? Or it something else going on?