CA: Commission slashes lawmakers' cars, per diem, health insurance (18%)

Sac Bee ^ | 6/30/09 | Susan Ferriss

[NormsRevenge]

The California Citizens Compensation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to cut state legislators' monthly car allowances, fringe benefits and their per diem allowance by 18 percent.

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The 18 percent cuts in benefits, per diem and cars also apply to constitutional officers of the state. The action follows and earlier vote to cut lawmakers' and state elected officials pay by 18 percent effective Dec. 1, 2010.

[icwhatudo]

So you mean...if voters force them to not raise taxes...they finally will ....gasp....cut things?

Wow, what a crazy idea.

[Steamburg]

I’ll bet that’s a standard that 0bambi won’t want applied nationally.

[Zathras]

Yahoo!

[Drango]

A little late and it should have been 25%

[basil]

Why are they waiting about a year and a half for this to kick in?

[Drango]

Smoking dope clouds their judgment.

[beebuster2000]

effective Dec. 1, 2010.

Another scam. It will never happen.

[Selene]

I have a better idea. They should be charged a 35% FEE on all of their lawmaker income due to their performance epic fail

[Oldpuppymax]

Thirty grand a year in tax free, unaccounted for money? Swell. And Kalifornia is broke because taxes aren’t high enough, right? My God, will there be wailing and gnashing of teeth in Sacramento tonight!

[RJL]

The daily sums can add up to between $30,000 and $35,000 a year, tax free. "I feel that this is a lot of money," Sands said.

It's easy to be for much higher taxes when you're getting $35,000 a year tax free.

The Democrats just love taxes for everyone but themselves.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

.. now if they could just get rid of the major portion of those 100s of commissions and boards where unemployed political hacks are paid six-figure incomes until some hemorrhoid-cure-like TV ad convinces Californians to “buy” their crap again.

[Texas resident]

They seem to forget that their “pay” comes from the taxpayers. When the taxpayers are getting hammered from all directions and lawmakers expect to get raises can really piss off the people who pay the taxes. Just saying.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

bump for later

[Publius6961]

Before anyone starts celebrating, just remember that that very same commission gave legislators and top officials a 34% raise in 1999.
And we all know that salaries and perks can only increase automatically on a schedule made by a budget-deprived salary fairy...