2011-02-17, 05:53 PM
Stereo Wrote:You know what else solves budgeting issues? Raising taxes...
Taxing people that are already barely able to make ends meet isnt exactly the best idea. Sure, you might be able to get some more money into the state at first, but that wont last long. Taxes, when too high, choke the economy. Then some people that are living paycheck to paycheck might be pulled into a spiral of debt from the increased taxes or those people might simply stop spending as much money. It'll hurt the economy, people's lives, and result in potentially less tax revenue.
What most states need to do is cut spending. Although, that brings the question of "what should we cut?" Some of us might simply have to bite the bullet and give up some luxuries we once had. That's life. Although maybe not if we cut the right programs and cut the right forms of spending.
Now, what to cut should be up to the citizens of Wisconson, but I'm certain you could easily find some obscene bullpomegranate to cut. Just looking at governments, they tend to overpay on everything (I'm thinking of how the Feds might pay a $1000 per chair...). One step would obviously be to frugal and force the government to not overpay. Then of course, we need to watch out for governments paying for private interests. For example, it would probably be best to oppose building private sports stadiums with tax payer money.
Now, I dont know exactly what sorts of bull goes on in Wisconson, but I'm certain the government is wasting money.
Now, back to the proposal of cutting benefits of workers. This is the one thing I can say for certain. The governer and the congress of Wisconson should be willing to cut their own benefits before they cut other people's benefits.
In fact, since they want to cut teacher benefits, I think that they should all have to work in a building similar to that of a school, with similar funding to a school and work at desks commonly used by high schoolers before they cut school related funding.
Anyway, looks like RT has some video coverage of the event.
[video=youtube;TrRN9UWgISE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrRN9UWgISE&feature=player_embedded[/video]