Amendments 2-5 for 2010 for your reading pleasure.

Well that's gonna be easy. No on Amendments 1-5, yes on the referendum.

 

Even easier for me, no on all the above

 

Why penalize businesses for carrying inventory?

 

That's my question????

 

To make up the shortfall, shift this tax burden away from business to .....?

 

How about we cut spending? That'd work.

High taxes on business stymie growth. When a business has to pay extra tax (which is what the inventory tax is) they have less money to use to grow their business. Now, basic business teaches us that businesses can grow by hiring employees, buying capital assets, renovating, increasing their product lines, increasing inventory (which is currently discouraged by the very tax in question), etc. ALL of these things cause money to be injected into the economy. Why on earth would anyone want to penalize a business by levying an extra tax?

Cut taxes on businesses and encourage growth. It's as simple as that.

 

How about a 40% pay cut across the board for all government workers? While they are at it a 40% reduction in the handout checks to all the lazy moochers.

Just a reminder to those who don't remember and an FYI for those who don't know. Business' do not pay taxes. Any tax paid by a business is passed on to the people who buy the good or services from them in the form of higher prices. So if you just shift it from business to the people who actually pay it then it would be a wash. Cut spending by cutting wages and benefits of government workers and the worthless.

 

Just how much do you think government employees make? My wife has a degree and 3 certifications to do her job, a job that must be done. She is a supervisor in her department, and works harder than most in the private sector doing the same kind of work; yet gets paid about 65% less. She takes pride in what she does, though, and feels she gets to make more of an impact working publicly than privately.

You really want to cut her pay to 19k a year? She would be forced to leave and go to the private sector (or work for the fed instead of county). Who is going to do her job for under 20k? It isn't like she is making a fortune at her whopping 32k.

 

Pay is not the total amount your wife makes. She's probably got excellent benefits that are worth a good deal.

If the .gov can find someone to do your wife's job for 20k (plus benefits), then your wife is overpaid.

 

There are plenty of government workers that are already underpaid to do stuff we actually need them to do, like police, firefighting, etc. Randomly pissing on all government workers is kinda ridiculous.

 

They can't. Kind of my point. They were lucky to get her, most people with her amount of education make considerably more working in the private sector. You aren't getting a lot of resumes from folks with specialized degrees that took the time to go to school for another 3 years for multiple certifications that will work for 20k, if you can find any at all.

We aren't talking about the girl at the counter at the DMV, here. We are talking about the people that make sure when you go to make an appeal that your old court records are still around, that there is a disaster plan in place, that all those deeds of your property exist somewhere, etc.

As for her benefits, they aren't all that special compared to working privately. Or maybe you are talking about the "benefit" of no raises allowed, no cost of living expense increases, no hiring of anyone whatsoever even if someone retires/quits (thus placing more work on the remaining workers). Or maybe the furloughs? Those benefits?

 

I find it very hard to believe that someone working for the government makes less (especially 65%) than someone in the same job in the private sector. The numbers just don't add up that way when every report says just the oposite. Not only does the government employee make 65% more than the private sector they have much better benefits. Their retirement plan is through the roof. So yes I want to cut all government employee wages and. That includes the federal government as well. I also want to cut the massive benefits they are so willing to take. I have nothing against you and/or your wife. If your wife could make 65% more in the private sector then why is she still working for the government? The whole line of reasoning doesn't make sense. I am not buying the she would be forced to go to work in the private sector for 65% more as being such a bad thing. I'm not sure what she does but I would bet if the government were reduced to it's rightfull size her department could be evaporated so they would not even need any of the employees. No employees=no supervisor. The whole problem is government is far too big and their wages and benefits far outweigh the private sector for the same job. Well over half the government employees could be eliminated and the ones that remain could be reduced to the wages they were intended to have. They are a public service business and should be dedicated to such if they want the job like it was for the first 150 years of this country. Otherwise get a real job.

I agree with Jig... If her job is really one that would just have to be there when the size and functions of government were scaled back to what is absolutely required then why not find someone who really wants to serve the public and not just take it for the ultra high wages and benefits.

 

Your ignorance is astounding. Though, mine was, also; until I actually learned what all she did. There are currently 2 people in her entire department. TWO. One left for retirement 2 years ago, and with the hiring freezes, she can't be replaced. And you are so incredibly wrong about how much she would get paid privately.

The national mean for her exact job is over 45k a year, for Atlanta it is over 60k. Now, the one place you are right is that working for the fed she would be making a ton more money. Fed archivists' mean is 78k.

As for why she remains where she does for less pay, she enjoys the job, and her boss. It is worth it to her to be appreciated, by her colleagues and the public. Just because money is the only factor to you, does not mean it doesn't make sense, just that it doesn't make sense to you. It took me a while to get it, too. Especially since we are still paying for some student loans.

As for your "get a real job" quip, you have no idea what her job entails, how much work it entails, or the first thing about how to do it. You could not do it, I could not do it. Most of America can not do it. She is dedicated to her work, and thus works for less pay. You countered your own argument. You say she would never work there for less pay, then expect her to be a public servant and work for less pay (which she already does). Which is it?

 

The past 2 government jobs I've worked at made considerably less than those of the same position in the private sector... in fact for me to get "raises" out of them I moved to a private sector company.

 

Still not buying it. Every report I have ever seen says just the reverse. People who work in government jobs make 65% more than those doing the same job in the private sector. They also have very outstanding benefits and retirement plans that do not exist within the private sector.

The whole point is the employees, wages and benefits for government workers should be cut across the board to get the stupid spending under control.

 

I can source my statistics, can you? Or are you just making stuff up as you go? Let's see your proof.

Here is some of mine. I can go more detailed if you want, into actual reports from archivists, instead of the DOL.

http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes254011.htm

 

Maybe as an average but as a software developer the pay is pretty wide between government and private sector.

 

Notice how Gov always makes it about who is going to take the hit? Businesses or Individuals? Never Gov! They always work to keep the battle over $ away from Gov. Divide and conquer.

Penalizing businesses because they carry an inventory is ludicrous. Money to Gov is a loss. Gov is a non-productive entity and a drain on the economy. There is very little if anything that Gov does that can't be improved through privatization.

 

Well this also is related to the area I live in so maybe it's higher elsewhere?