California state government spending on waste & fraud will keep increasing until the GOLDEN STATE has COOKED all the GOLDEN GEESE. Mark my words.
This has always been inevitable and is not due to Newsom or any individual. The Democratic Party is utterly controlled by the unions and the trial lawyers and California is a one-party state.
Any politician nominally “in charge” of California has two choices:
1. Stop sending crazy money to the public sector unions and law firms.
2. Sacrifice the most productive citizens to pay the graft.
They will always pick the second choice, because they will lose their primary if they pick the first.
Only bankruptcy will force a righting of the state, but, between now and then, they will feast on the golden geese who were laying the golden eggs...!