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Originally Posted by Azure
And?
There are a lot of options on there that are worth $5 million.
The fact that it is chump change doesn't mean it shouldn't be an option to cut.
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Its $5M if you cut 50% of their salary (which by most peoples standards would be pretty ridiculous, regardless of your party).
Plus, as I've pointed out many times, you have the option to add other suggestions on basically every page of the survey. Factor in the $5M or less savings that this would give you and do the rest of the exercise? I had no trouble in finding enough areas to cut and balance the budget, and frankly with some taxation that I think should be there I also ended up with a sizeable surplus.
One question about "living within our means" as that phrase keeps coming up. Does that mean that if we put in a sales tax/fuel tax and raised another chunk of cash that we're living within our means? In the same vein if I make $40k this year and made $30k last year then my spending the extra is still "within my means" right?