Full circle indeed! If you cut those 4 things (which aren't likely going to give static numbers, so dollars would doubtlessly be difficult to predict exactly, although the effect on the economy would not.) then you are unquestionably going to be getting the 9.5%. I would put forth to you that in the duplicate state vs Fed agency that this is larger than 10% in itself alone, not to mention the Workers Comp boondoggle.
You are correct, he doesn't give a % of how much of the budget these will save, but if you are serious in questioning this aspect of his plan, I would call that kind of lame considering how much $ those 4 will be. I mean, cutting Worker's Comp ALONE will increase hiring in the Golden State and thereby immensely increase tax "revenue" into the capital. Revenue right now is still increasing, it will explode after that and eat up the debt on its own, without cutting your Police-Fire-Roads-Schools canard.
Stop thinking like a Democrate, a healthy growing economy is dynamicly scaled, not staticly. Thank God Tom McClintock understands this.
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Senator McClintock's BRAC Legislation is Approved by the California Senate |
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Senator Tom McClintock
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Date: July 27, 2003
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Publication Type: Press Release
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Measure sets up a Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete state bureaucracie.
(Sacramento) – Senate Bill 9 by State Senator Tom McClintock (R-Thousand Oaks) was approved today by the California State Senate by a vote of 36 to 0. The bill sets up a Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete state government bureaucracies. The legislation is modeled after the federal military base realignment and closure commission which successfully closed 90 obsolete military bases, saving $20 billion per year. Senator McClintock’s legislation, SB 9, applies the same mechanism to a similar problem: how to identify, downsize or eliminate obsolete bureaucracies in state government. The difficulty in conducting such a review – and acting upon it – is that every program has a highly motivated constituency that jealously and expertly guards its budget. Faced with the long overdue need to close obsolete military bases, the federal government confronted the same paralysis caused by interest group pressure. Ultimately, Congress broke the gridlock when it took the task of reviewing bases out of the political arena and gave it to an independent panel of management experts that returned a comprehensive recommendation for a single up-or-down vote. SB 9 will empanel an independent commission of management experts to examine state bureaucracies to determine which ones perform obsolete or duplicate services. The plan will then be presented to the Legislature for a single yes or no vote. “I think we all agree that this government could operate a lot more efficiently,” said Senator McClintock. The bill next moves to the California State Assembly. |
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