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since we are on the subject of keeping tabs: didn't Jim argue pretty vehemently against prop 1098 (state income tax on top 1% of tax bracket)? and now he claims that cutting public employee benefits is the only solution?

spare us your worthless bullshit, not only you argued against taxing the wealthy on the federal level but also against prop 1098. You are a laughable opportunist. You have no credibilty whatsoever.

You are a clown who now wants underpaid public employees to take a cut but who didn't want the upper 1% to pay taxes.

remember how KKK argued against increasing taxes on the wealthy and now this hypocrite wants to "ease pressure on the budget" by cutting public employee compensation

that'd be worth a reply if effective employee compensation hadn't gone down for the last 30 years while inequality soared and if your solution for "easing pressure on the budget" wasn't solely for workers to take another compensatinn cut.

the only solution offered by you and others is to cut employee compensation, so it's not like I am arguing aginst a mulitiude of proposed solutions.

Wages fine. Unfunded pensions with auto increases despite the economy. No. So another 6% from the WA budget. Where's should it come from in your opinion? certainly not from austerity measures as it will compound the problem

nice fairy tale. Only problem, it matches none of the reality of rising gross inequalities of the last 30 years during which the top 1% grabbed ~1/2 the growth in productivity and mostly stopped paying taxes.

overreaching just a little on the meaning of this report perhaps?

especially idealism like a living wage/pension

I'll guarantee that if you chop that arm off, the hand will stop bleeding.

that must be why all these years of lowering effective employee compensations has led to unsutainable debt and cratering state revenue.

I doubt there is any real discussion that Bush was a conservative, apart from in the wet dreams of CATO propagandists of course. Don't confuse being 'conservative' as in being cautious, with being 'conservative' as in being right wing (i.e. against change). Right wingers have even fewer claims to being fiscally cautious than liberals. Liberals at least usually consider that sustaining revenue is necessary to sustain any spending.

It works so well into the "drowning the state in a bathtub" playbook that it makes one stop and ponder whether underfunding obligations was solely a matter of budget convenience. Especially after what happened to private pensions.

except that you already agreed to move on to cutting benefits without increasing revenue. Paying lip service to an idea then immediately caving in isn't good enough.

fiscal responsibility (please leave regressive framing in the closet) demands revenues. Solely cutting spending isn't responsible Or 'conservative' as you call it.

you are utterly confused. Are you a bureaucrat having to make an impossible budget decision? No, you aren't you are some dude falsly claimng that cutting employee compensation is going to solve our budget woes.

pretending that cutting compensation for workers is going to solve the fiscal crisis while state revenue are imploding is not only poor public policy, it's a lie.

as I already told you many times, to everyone his role. Mine isn't to be a sycophant for bashing the character and worth of public employees while pretending that is going to solve the fiscal crisis. Your position is no different than Obama's when he caves in getting nothing in return.

your weak editorializing on my answers (arm waving, dodging, ..) isn't supported by the evidence. I gave you plenty of answers such as the fiscal crisis has no solution at the local level despite your jack bauer analogies and unless you think that making workers pay the crisis is a solution.

you call ignoring the elephant in the room to attack public employee compensation, "public policy". LOLZ

That sounds as farfetched as the "torture the terrorist before he blows up your family" scenario

Scapegoating public workers

don't forget the contribution of retards like you too

Nice dodge. If you want to be taken seriously then stop avoiding a straight-forward question. If you were the major of San Jose what would you propose now that services are bone bare? keep pretending that not paying people their fair share is going to address the root of our fiscal problems like exploding healh care costs, no taxation of those who can be taxed, cratering wages and benefits, mass unemployemnt, etc... All local issues as one can readily see.