Political Road Map: To know whether California`s budget will balance, watch this month`s tax collections
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Here´s a nifty, if not mind-blowing, way to think about all the tax dollars showing up right now in Sacramento: Over the past week, California collected about $8 billion in state income taxes - more money in just a handful of days than New Mexico´s general fund receives in an entire year. And yet,...