Budget 2020 is the budget that needed to happen. It will more than likely make most people who read it unhappy. That is OK. We have been conditioned since at least the 1970s to think of budget day as a day when sweeties get doled out, especially in election years. As I wrote in my column on Monday, I expected Budget 2020 to see a subtle evolution in the fiscal architecture of the state. We saw two signs this happened.  First, the doling out of electoral sweeties has not happened with Budget 2020. Yesterday brought a lot of small initiatives,…

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