re: #10 Buck

Fine, let’s take the purely economics approach. Did Walker cut his own salary? Are the members of the legislature taking a pay cut? Do they get to deduct gas mileage from their income? Do they get reimbursed? What kind of deductible to they have on the health plan? Do they have a publicly funded health plan?

What will happen to the cost of insurance if police protection and fire protection is lessened? How about the cost of health insurance if sanitation pickup is cut back, or the department of water and sewers doesn’t perform their services up to par? What if salaries sink too low to support families and pay mortgage, then you will have a dash to the private sector for jobs. Who will fill those jobs, skilled, experienced people?

What about the decline in purchasing power from all of these employees? Will small businesses feel the cuts, as people begin to pare down to the essentials? If foreclosures increase, how will this affect property values, and hence tax revenue?

The thing about economics, the big picture in never big enough.