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2008-12-06 Home Front Economy

High-earning state employees' pay may be frozen

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-06 06:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Hey! Here's a way to make Cal some cash! SELL those gay marriage certificates for $250,000 per pop. Want your homo shackup legal? Reach for your wallet and show you're a public spirited citizen. Not enough scratch? Back in the closet with you.

Simple market solution.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-06 08:23|| 2008-12-06 08:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Been gone from the state for over 15 years, Its not the same place I grew up in. There is a lot of 'fat' that could be trimmed, a lot of 'recipients' who could be cut loose and a hell of a lot of people with 'bad backs' that could be forced to work if they wanted to eat.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-12-06 08:46|| 2008-12-06 08:46|| Front Page Top

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-06 10:01|| 2008-12-06 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't worry, Big Jim, the governator and the legislature together will threaten to cut the usual stuff -- the schools, the prisons, and the hospitals -- so as to get the rubes to fork over more tax dollars. Cutting the PR people, the earmarks and the pet projects, of course, can't be done ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-12-06 11:21|| 2008-12-06 11:21|| Front Page Top

#5 So what happens when the rubes have no more dollars to fork over?

Posted by DarthVader 2008-12-06 19:23|| 2008-12-06 19:23|| Front Page Top

#6 The Imaginary-Americans can always play imaginary taxes to fun imaginary finance, I'm sure, DarthVader.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-06 20:34|| 2008-12-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#7 So what happens when the rubes have no more dollars to fork over?

Bailout!

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-12-06 20:43|| 2008-12-06 20:43|| Front Page Top

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