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Breaking down Steve Hilton’s sweeping new plan for California

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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.

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........

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