Originally Posted by alexlekas

when any state's lawmakers get together, hope is usually in scarce supply, right alongside reason and responsibility. Lots of states have tried to tax self storage. It is amazing that while businesses and individuals find ways to reduce expenses, govt innoculates itself from the logic of that approach, seeking instead ways of sucking even more blood from constituents.

What Gina describes in CA is typical - when in doubt (doubt defined as a public not willingly accepting tax increases), threaten to lay off teachers, cops, and firemen. Oddly, there is never a word about trimming any layer of high five-figure to six-figure bureaucracy, and there are plenty within the public sector earning that. Are they all worth it? Good question. Are they all necessary? Better question. Perhaps some who have been through layoffs at their companies can explain to displaced colleagues why a deputy assistant superintendent is crucial but they are expendable.

Better stop before this gets into high gear.