The economy is a mess. Ok, so pointing out the obvious doesn't make for intriguing reading, but the truth is still there. The question to be asked is, what do we do about it? As a Nevada Legislator, I am writing this while in recess for a special session. My state is facing a budget shortfall of nearly a billion dollars and the Governor called us back to fix this mess. Unfortunately the leadership has no idea how to look to the long term, everything is a short-lived bandage of moving immediate monies hither and yon. In order to do something long term, we need to look for funding sources like a couple dollars on the room tax and a state lottery, not just cost cutting measures.
If we have to cut costs, why not do it in areas of common sense. Gas is becoming a gourmet item, so how about having online filing and fee payment available in every government agency 24/7. That way businesses and taxpayers can save time and money...and deal with the government on their time schedule, not bureauracy's. Another way to save would be to stop printing in any language other than english. We would save millions of dollars and thousands of trees.
In Nevada it is actually a conflict of interest for the state to pay lobbyists, but we do, in the millions of dollars once expenses are factored in. Just obeying that law would save a huge chunk of the shortfall, not to mention cleaning up the image of the state a bit.
That's just a couple of ideas. Not politically correct, but common sense is like that.
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