Breaking down Steve Hiltons sweeping new plan for California

Xavier Becerra –– the Dems’ milquetoast gubernatorial candidate –– is pitching a couple hours of “free” electricity if you do your laundry when the sun shines, say between 1 p.m.and 3 p.m.His GOP rival, Steve Hilton, wants to curb state spending to give you tax relief.Which of these approaches sounds more practical to you?Let’s break it down. Becerra offers more of the same, and then more of that.

His laundry-friendly “power hour”? A feeble nod to pseudo-novelty.Meanwhile, he’d drive up prices with the usual spending and more, from green rackets to homelessness boondoggles to taxpayer-funded healthcare for illegal immigrants.Not appealing?Well, Steve Hilton provides an alternative and good news: It involves common sense.This week, he unveiled a sweeping plan for change in California.

Hilton would scrap state income taxes on the first $150,000 of earnings for every Californian.To cover the multibillion-dollar gap in tax receipts, he’d gut waste, pare bureaucracy and shrink government.While the math might need scrutiny, the approach is sound.After all: The state general-fund budget has roughly doubled to $250 billion in the past 10 years. Does anyone believe Californians are getting twice the public services they received in 2016? California's top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.

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Never miss a story Hilton would also scuttle the state’s highest-profile taxpayer rip-offs.These include the high-speed rail project that’s not laid an inch of track in 18 years and state funding of a homelessness industrial complex that pipes tax dollars to nonprofits which entrench both the crisis and their own funding. And then there’s the climate fever dream that grips the left in Sacramento. It’s led to years of regulations that have bloated the cost of gas, oil, en...