On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:56:52 BST, Drsolly said: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A) Name a state agency or service who's budget you will cut, and be > > prepared to > > live without that service at current levels. You take it from higher ed, > > you > > have to accept the tuition hike that will follow. You take it from > > transportation, > > you have to live with more potholes and dangerously degraded bridges. > C) Reduce the politicians salaries. That's merely a special case of A. :) And cutting salaries is problematic too - at least in Virginia, there aren't enough legislators that even reducing their salary to *zero* would net enough funds to make a dent in the cost of any statewide initiative. http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legismgt/about/05salary.htm For 2005, they got paid $18,000/year Senate, $17,640/year House for a part time job that's horrendously scheduled - you have to be semi-retired or otherwise have the means to live on $18K/year, and/or take 4 months of vacation a year. Phrased differently, we could fire the entire Commonwealth legislature, and the resulting savings would add maybe 50 competent sysadmins to the entire state government. Big dent *that* would be.
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