where is the area that cuts the big state employees paychecks?

 

or they drive thier cars on our dime?

 

here is my solution (and i realize it will affect business that shouldnt be touched by the government)

take the salaries of pro sports platers and reduce them to a maximum of 5 million.
If you did this accross all sports and reduced it the same percentage for all players, you would have over 25billion dollars a year of income that can go directly to the local community and states. Now for those states that do not have a pro team, there would be a percentage of all the excess income that would pour into federal, state, and county reserves.

if the pro players dont like it, go find another job that will pay you $5,000,000.00.

 

No thanks. Pro athletes don't have anything to do with this problem and $5 million is a completely arbitrary number.

This does nothing to fix the root cause of the problem. The state has Super AIDS and a sore throat and you're prescribing cough drops.

 

a) why would the team owners pay that difference to the state?

b) why wouldn't the players go to another state that's not as retarded as this one?

c)

d) the money to reduce the defecit should come from the elimination of the non-essential services which created the defecit in the first place.

 

there IS a way to cut money out of education WITHOUT decreasing quality of service.

sacramento county has approximately 10 independent school districts. this means there are 10 administrators, 10 facilities departments, 10 IT deparments, 10 HR departments, 10 payroll departments, and on and on... it is also 10 independent orders for things like text books and other supplies.

if each county had 1 school district, each district could actually improve quality of service while still reducing costs. this is how every large business i've worked for operates, with shared services. the smaller regional outfits, like suburban areas and outlying cities, can still operate semi-autonomously so long as they "corporate" guidelines.

there's probably a **** load of state and local agencies that could combine common services like this. there's a reason private sector has gone this route, because it works.

 

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People are being over paid and there is too much government intervention. People need to let the economy correct itself. The government needs to stop throwing FREE money for grants, etc. for students. Students wouldn't go because the prices are too high, and education would balance itself (by decreasing wages, etc.) in order to have the prices low enough to attract more students.

People keep going over the same old flag ship, but AGAIN THE WAY TO FIX THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN EXPLAINED A BILLION TIMES ALREADY. Learn to listen to the REAL people of the economy, not to a government who doesn't know what the people need.

 

Cut non-essential programs and raise taxes temporarily. Our problem has always been that we keep demanding the state provide us with services, but we never raise taxes to cover the new programs. It's ****ing retarded.

 

i say cut the following:
the k-14, csu/uc, cal grants, human services fraud, medical fraud, illegal immigrants, low-level offenders, parole, furloughs.
and increase the following tax:
high earner tax increase, cig tax, alcohol tax, oil severance tax.

This should get our deficit back down to 8 bill.
then we can work on next year to get rid of our deficit.

 

you had me till the high earner tax thingy... if you tax the hell out of the wealthy, the wealthy will leave and then the state gets jack **** out of them.

 

No they wont. They'll just find more ways to expense their income.