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   From: Voter@Vote2016.com   
      
   Pay the State Legislators $300,000 per year, and give them each 10 Analysts   
   paid   
   $150,000-$200,000 discretionary, to hire the best.   
      
   The Assembly is currently 80 people paid $104,118/year.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly   
      
   The Senate is currently 40 people also paid $104,118/year.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature   
      
   If we pay the State Legislators and their Analysts, there is a 50/50 chance we   
   will still get a bad government.  If we don't pay the State Legislators and   
   their   
   Analysts, there is 100% chance we will continue to get a bad government.   
      
   We don't want to pay too much or too little; rather, we want to pay right.   
      
   Intelligent people demand money for their credentials.  To hire intelligence to   
   run our State, you must pay more money.  True professionals hope to earn up to   
   $300,000 per year.   
      
   The Superintendent of your local school board is paid $250,000.  The chief of   
   police is paid over $130,000.  College Professors at public Universities are   
   paid   
   over $150,000, UC Chancellors are paid even a little OVER $300,000.  The   
   private   
   sector pays the creme de la creme of doctors, lawyers and businessmen   
   $250,000-$350,000.  On the other hand, there's almost no reason when hiring   
   someone to pay them over $125 per hour, or $250,000 per year base salary.  Some   
   Investment Bankers and Corporate lawyers work 80 hours per week, 9:00am-11:00pm   
   (with a free dinner), and weekends less, to make up to $500,000 or a little   
   more.   
   The average major-city chief salary across the country was $193,692.  The   
   annual   
   salary of a U.S. District Court judge increased is $199,100.  A California   
   Superior Court Judge's median wage is $176,000.  The District Attorney is paid   
   $262,000.   
   If you want to know why are state is in the mess it is, look right at the State   
   Legislature's pay.  You get what you pay for!  You get what you pay for!   
      
      
   See how much more your governmental leaders are being paid than your most   
   important State Legislators:   
   http://transparentcalifornia.com/agencies/salaries/#counties   
      
   https://ballotpedia.org/California_state_government_salary   
      
   http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_pressrel_15305.html   
      
      
   The job of a State Legislator or Senator should be considered one of the most   
   important jobs in the State of California.  This is the State Government we're   
   talking about.  It commits 90% of the governance and law enforcement of the   
   state.   
     What's going on in politics in our nation is _not_ caused by Washington   
   D.C!  It   
   should be a full time job, and if there's nothing to do, find a problem, and   
   fix   
   it!  Lord knows there are plenty!  We have to make Politics a Profession!  We   
   want   
   to hire professionals to lead and run this state, and PhDs, J.D.'s and MBAs   
   demand   
   money for their credentials.  California should hold itself up to the lofty   
   level   
   that is required of it: to become the glorious State it can become, - to be a   
   shinning becon of light unto the United States, and the World.   
      
   The population of the State of California is estimated by Wikipedia to be   
   almost   
   40 million.  This is the size of a small country.  As such, California should   
   be   
   run like a country.  It should have a stronger, more glorious Bill of Rights,   
   and   
   more Legislators and Senators.   
      
   We should craft a new and better Bill of Rights, to be said by school children,   
   like the Pledge of Allegiance, and to be taken by cops, so that no new   
   prohibitions may abridge it.   
      
   But we need to pay our Legislature, so we don't hire the Quacks, Mad   
   Scientists,   
   Muppets, PTA Bake Sale Mamas, and other Incompetent Idiots who destroy our   
   State.   
      
      
   Paying the Legislators might not get us better service, but not paying the   
   Legislators will ensure we won't get better service.  Paying is thus a   
   prerequisite.  You will make nothing out of nothing.  You may make nothing out   
   of   
   something, but it's a prerequisite to have something to make something.  People   
   have to worry about their own livelihoods - at the same time they give to   
   others.   
   Otherwise, only independently wealthy deca-millionaires may serve us.   
      
   Finally, if there some notion that people shouldn't be paid, then we should   
   limit   
   everyone's income, not just the State Legislator's.  Then we have to take into   
   account capital savings.  We need capital savings for labor, and in that case,   
   perhaps everyone needs to have a forced capital savings account only for   
   investment or business.   
      
   Pay them $300,000, or else make it $200,000 or less for everyone in the   
   country.   
      
      
   Increasing the size of the State Legislature is also a good idea.   
      
   At 80 Assemblymen, the California State Assembly is one Legislator for every   
   500,000 Californians.   
   At 40 Senators, the State Senate is currently one Legislator for every   
   1,000,000   
   Californians.   
      
   Two determine the number of Assemblymen and Senators, we have to balance two   
   things:   
   1) Representation,   
   2) A Manageable Size to the body.   
   The Size of the U.S. House of Representatives was capped at 435, in 1911.    
   There   
   are currently standing proposals to increase the size by an additional 100 or   
   so   
   U.S. Representatives, today.   
      
   In 1790, the first Census of the United States indicated 3,929,214 people.  In   
   1791 the U.S. House of Representatives had 69 people in it, or one   
   Representative   
   for every 56,945 people.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_House   
   of_Representatives   
      
   I believe the ideal number of people per representative to be somewhere between   
   30,000-60,000 people per Representative.  But we have to balance that against a   
   manageable body.  If we were to have 1 California State Legislator for every   
   80,000 people, we would have a 500 person State Assembly, and this is my   
   suggestion.  This could be allowed to grow with the State population perhaps   
   up to   
   a little over 600.  Eventually, we could have 650 State Assemblymen for   
   65,000,000   
   Californians or 1 per every 100,000 Californians, and cap it at that, [or   
   reduce   
   that size if it became too unwieldy, to less than 600 or 500, as that may be   
   too   
   high.  Or let it grow to 800 for 100,000,000 Californians, and 1 per 125,000.]   
      
   I further suggest the State Senate to be increased to 200 total, not to be   
   increased higher.   
   This would be one Senator for every 200,000 Californians.   
   [At 60,000,000 Californians one for every 300,000 Californians.   
      
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