Comments on: Beshear calls news conference to discuss special session’s agenda http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/06/04/beshear-calls-news-conference-to-discuss-special-sessions-agenda/ Covering Kentucky politics and government Fri, 18 May 2012 22:12:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry Cantrell http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/06/04/beshear-calls-news-conference-to-discuss-special-sessions-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-27367 Larry Cantrell Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:50:55 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=6476#comment-27367 There is so much waste in state government, you could balance the budget by getting rid of state vehicles, turning the lights off in unused offices and at night, turning the thermostat up a couple of degrees. If the gov't hadn't over spent in recent months, years we wouldn't be in this situation as a state. As citizen's and consumers we are expected to live on a budget, in order to manage our finances. Why isn't the state held accountable for the same? If you don't have it, you don't spend it. Now that the money is gone, you try to balance the budget on the backs of the citizen's of the Commonwealth. There is so much waste in state government, you could balance the budget by getting rid of state vehicles, turning the lights off in unused offices and at night, turning the thermostat up a couple of degrees. If the gov’t hadn’t over spent in recent months, years we wouldn’t be in this situation as a state. As citizen’s and consumers we are expected to live on a budget, in order to manage our finances. Why isn’t the state held accountable for the same? If you don’t have it, you don’t spend it. Now that the money is gone, you try to balance the budget on the backs of the citizen’s of the Commonwealth.

]]> By: Yin-Yang http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/06/04/beshear-calls-news-conference-to-discuss-special-sessions-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-27365 Yin-Yang Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:19:45 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=6476#comment-27365 Raise those taxes!!! Freedom and a democratic society isn't free. Anyone who wants to say government is too big and poorly managed is probably also saying that AIG, Bank of America, GM, Chrysler, Wells Fargo and the rest of them all deserve to pay their CEO and team millions in benefits... They are also probably the ones who have a small business and take little things home while writing them of on their taxes, taking cash tips and not claiming them, using the car from the dealership for personal business and not paying taxes on it, buying a new fridge for their house and taking the old one to the rental property but still writing it off as a business expense... Tax reform!!! Make EVERYONE pay the same and stop this stupidity of being politically correct by "not raising taxes"... Coward!!! Raise those taxes!!! Freedom and a democratic society isn’t free. Anyone who wants to say government is too big and poorly managed is probably also saying that AIG, Bank of America, GM, Chrysler, Wells Fargo and the rest of them all deserve to pay their CEO and team millions in benefits…

They are also probably the ones who have a small business and take little things home while writing them of on their taxes, taking cash tips and not claiming them, using the car from the dealership for personal business and not paying taxes on it, buying a new fridge for their house and taking the old one to the rental property but still writing it off as a business expense…

Tax reform!!! Make EVERYONE pay the same and stop this stupidity of being politically correct by “not raising taxes”… Coward!!!

]]> By: mmiball http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/2009/06/04/beshear-calls-news-conference-to-discuss-special-sessions-agenda/comment-page-1/#comment-27346 mmiball Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:48:11 +0000 http://bluegrasspolitics.bloginky.com/?p=6476#comment-27346 Maybe a good place for him to start cutting expenses would be to cut the saleries of the legislators by about half and reduce the size of their staffs. Maybe a good place for him to start cutting expenses would be to cut the saleries of the legislators by about half and reduce the size of their staffs.

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