Commentary If you look beyond the numbers, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2022-23, which begins on July 1, 2022, further enmeshes government in the lives of everyone in the state. At his Monday announcement, the governor was ebullient about the $213 billion in general-fund spending. As in previous budget announcements, he spoke in detail for more than 90 minutes. The proposed budget does “balance,” with a $45.7 billion surplus, if you ignore the more than $250 billion in unfunded liabilities the state still has for pensions and retiree medical care. But the extra money goes largely to more government programs that control our lives, or to tax credits for actions such as buying electric cars that coerce people in a direction desired by the governor. The main area for prodding us is the environment. He touted his executive order banning selling internal-combustion vehicles in the state by …