I agree that sanitization theater is stupid. But Biden isn't making these companies do this. I don't even think Gavin Newsom is making them do this. They are doing it because they think the customers/employees demand it. And while I don't think the sanitization helps much, I would remind you that California has a better per capita death rate than 38 other states and has 32,000 fewer deaths than the national average would suggest they should have expected, so something you all have done has worked. The primary effect of COVID on the economy at this point is based on people who aren't ready to take as many risks yet. That's why the conference I attended in March was at half its normal capacity.

"If you don't have the money, then don't spend the money, period." Again, that's a HS simplification of how to run a government or for that matter any large business. You can't just look at receipts for a fiscal year and adjust the spending to match. There are fixed costs that run over many years that you can't adjust on the fly (I know because my father literally helped write the DOD budget for 20 years). I doubt our soldiers would appreciate downsizing or our veterans would like to lose their pensions and I know our social security and medicare recipients wouldn't. Our deficit is larger than all non-defense discretionary spending put together.

Your description on tax cuts is reasonable in an abstract sense, but not about this specific case. When international supply chains are screwed up tax cuts aren't going to do anything.