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Govt employee costs/benefits are too high (none / 0) (#2)
by jdwalshjr on Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 05:51:46 PM EST

Business Leaders for Michigan (www.michiganturnaroundplan.com and facebook.com/michiganturnaroundplan) recently put together a plan to rightsize our state government and ensure that critical areas like public safety and schools are funded. Key components are the following:

Reduce state employee compensation to the average compensation of state workers in the US or the average of MI private sector workers (Potential savings: $287 - $1,383M as of FY 2007-08)
Reduce the state workforce by 5-10% (Potential savings: $236 - $473M as of FY 2007-08)
Adjust state employee premium contributions to the national public sector average (Potential savings: $74M)

Our tax code right is discouraging job growth, especially with the heavy emphasis on business taxes. Furthermore, it doesn't make much sense to tax goods at a high rate when our economy is becoming more and more based on services. That's why the plan calls for expanding the sales tax to services, while reducing the tax from 6 to 5.5 percent.

The problem is that the governor's proposal is 99% taxes. She doesn't do anything about reforms. She should have followed Business Leaders' lead and and called for slashing the state workforce and rescinding the pay raises.

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