When the airlines were in trouble & when the auto industry was on the verge of failing what solution got them thru the fiscal crisis? They, across the board, cut salaries to save the jobs and ultimately the industry. Our state & federal govts are in CRISIS. no one can disagree with that. The annual federal salary and expense account costs, ALL expenses and perks is a quagmire & hard to get a handle on considering that In order to accomplish this, you would have to pull up all 230,000 different government CAFR reports but given even a lowball estimate it would equal almost a trillion / yr.
10% is a pitence . 10% is the avg church donation.10% will solve our deficit with NO CUTS to svcs ! There R easily 100 qualified aplicants who will take the jobs for 10% less. take the cut or get out