Try 25% for starters and you will be getting close to what needs to be done. These jerkoffs have been lining their pockets on the backs of the taxpayers for years now, to the point they no longer dare whine that "the private sector is compensated way beyond what we get". That stopped being true well over 20 years ago. Pay and perks for these weasels is way out of line. Contrary to his many earlier promises, old "True Lies" hasn't done a damn thing to cut inflated state payrolls.
This is a voter “feel good” measure because there are not enough of them to make a difference. Let’s start with the legacy costs of the public employees unions and start working down current benefits for people paid out of proportion to what they would be garnering anywhere else in the United States.
That's ridiculous. Texas pays its legislators just $7,200 per year. California needs to cut its legislators's pay to $11,600 not by $11,600.