5% pay cut being considered for California electeds
By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee
One week after Gov. Jerry Brown proposed slicing state workers’ pay by 5 percent, the Democratic governor and legislators find themselves targeted for a “share the pain” salary cut.
Members of California’s Citizens Compensation Commission said Monday that a pay-cut proposal for statewide officeholders will be on the table when the panel meets May 31.
Commissioner John Stites II said he supports a 5 percent cut for elected officeholders, from the governor to lawmakers.
“I definitely think they should take the same hit – at least,” Stites said. “Whatever happens to the people who work for you, whatever conditions they live under, it’s incumbent upon you to live under those same conditions.”
Brown projects a $15.7 billion budget shortfall for the fiscal year that begins July 1, and has proposed to bridge the gap with tax increases and program cuts, including a shift to a 38-hour, four-day workweek for state workers.
When he unveiled his revised proposal last week, Brown said his administration “would do more than what we ask state employees to do,” suggesting he and others would voluntarily take pay cuts.
How about the elephant in the room, the 20 billion spent on illegals.
5% is nothing compared to what the rest of us have had as a pay cut. I would say 20%. Let them feel some real pain. Maybe then they would understand what it is like to be a regular person.
Rhinopoker:
I agree. I don’t think any of these ‘decision-makers’ consider themselves ‘regular folk’ and I don’t think they care about us little guys. I think they believe they’re way above us and will go to great lengths to protect what they think they’re entitled to—at the expense of the rest of us. Like Marie Antoinette was said to have responded when told the peasants had no bread, “Well let them eat cake.” Our government’s mantra.
Our Government Officials should take cut for cut what they are applying to State workers (they are State workers themselves). They should also be first to lose benefits.
Remember, it is politicians who are leading the charge that State workers receive excessive benefits while their own benefits are sacrosanct.