Last Tuesday, Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, signed a $7.6 billion coronavirus relief package that plans to provide at least $600 one-time payments to close to six million Californians. It also set aside more than $2 billion in grants for struggling small businesses. In this episode, Alex looks at how states can pass their own relief packages if Congress is stalling on passing any relief. He looks into criticisms that the State of California can’t afford this relief package. He says that the state actually did better than expected through high state taxes, a booming stock market, and high capital gains taxes. He worries that the state is becoming only one of high earners and low earners; but at least the state was able to redistribute some of this revenue to help those in need.