By Eric Boehm, includes “… Everywhere you look, last year's doom-and-gloom predictions of state and city fiscal catastrophes don't seem to be panning out. The Urban Institute, a centrist think tank, estimates that state tax collections in March of this year were 10 percent higher than a year ago, even after federal pandemic aid is excluded from the calculations. … Governments at every level are about to find themselves flush with more cash than they might know what to do with.”