http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2009/11/20/power-breakfast-fulton-proposes-service-cuts-and-furloughs-jobless-rate-airport-glitch-georgia-power-health-reform/ Get inside Atlanta\'s and national business news and how it affects you. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:20:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2009/11/20/power-breakfast-fulton-proposes-service-cuts-and-furloughs-jobless-rate-airport-glitch-georgia-power-health-reform/comment-page-1/#comment-4945 Ben Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:37:54 +0000 http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/?p=3179#comment-4945 I read in another related article here that there it costs "$70,000 in salary and benefits for the average court employee" Is this the full cost of employing a person including social security taxes, etc? If not I suggest cutting salaries and saving some of the jobs. But I say "Heck No!" to a tax increase, and I think as a rule of thumb that every govt could take a 20% cut and still operate. Whack the waste and marginal programs and force the govt to be more efficient! We need to cut govt salaries and numbers drastically at every level, especially Federal, so we can work our way through the depression faster and lower taxes so small businesses can lead us out. I read in another related article here that there it costs “$70,000 in salary and benefits for the average court employee” Is this the full cost of employing a person including social security taxes, etc? If not I suggest cutting salaries and saving some of the jobs. But I say “Heck No!” to a tax increase, and I think as a rule of thumb that every govt could take a 20% cut and still operate. Whack the waste and marginal programs and force the govt to be more efficient! We need to cut govt salaries and numbers drastically at every level, especially Federal, so we can work our way through the depression faster and lower taxes so small businesses can lead us out.

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