Newsom’s “COVID cash” refunds designed to pacify frustrated voters?

Victoria Taft of PJ Media analyzes the state’s new $100 billion tax relief plan, which involves throwing hundreds to thousands of dollars to Californians as an odd—and depressingly ironic—apology for inflation. Fiscally unwise and inefficient, could Gov. Newsom’s payday plan be meant to “curry favor with angry voters”?

Gov. Gavin Newsom, awash in federally issued, inflation-inducing COVID-19 American greenbacks, will take billions of them, stuff them into his cash cannon, and shoot them all over California.

By his design, Californians will get this cash money just in time for the November elections, as Newsom hopes to curry favor with angry voters. Democrats ardently hope that enough voters will send back their thank-you ballots to keep them in their supermajority so they can continue ruining the Golden State.

People still on the state’s polluted voting rolls, abortion tourists, and illegal aliens who currently flood the state may be in line for an undeserved payday with all the cash. Who knows? Maybe prisoners will once again get their share of Newsom’s COVID money.

This unspent COVID cash is a testament to how ethically bankrupt the California Democrats are. If they weren’t going to give it back, they should pay down debt — like the trillion in unfunded pension liability. Or, they could have used the money to shore up the state’s electrical grid, build reservoirs, and spare working Californians those huge gas taxes. Instead, the Democrats will let another gas tax increase go into effect on July 1.

But ensuring the essentials for a well-functioning economy, such as cheaper gas, more plentiful energy, and water in that desert oasis isn’t as much fun as firing the cash cannon.

This article originally appeared in PJ Media. Read the whole thing here.

Follow Opportunity Now on Twitter @svopportunity