state budget fun

Spent some time playing with this WA Budget calculator. Most of my cuts were to what I perceive to be 'non-core' parts of the state budget...early release of non-violent drug offenders, eliminate the film board, things like that. Couple things that frustrated me: no option to ax the state liquor stores (last I read, we lose money on those) and no option to privatize the capitol tours. I think citizens should be able to tour the capitol building, but I don't think the state should have to pay for it.

I also took a 'business' approach; no salary increases for employees, raise health plan contributions, raise taxes & eliminate some of the sales-tax exemptions. Oh, and yes, I went for both gambling proposals.

I ended up with a .008B surplus without using any reserves...and warnings that Tim Eyman, Boeing, the WA employee's union & the WEA would all want my hide.

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Woke up yesterday about 2something. Finished re-reading Small Town, got up around 4pm. Unpacked some, read some, watched tv some, did some laundry, unpacked some more, made breakfast, cleaned some...went to sleep this morning about noon. Woke up at 7pm.

So on the good side, between friday, saturday, sunday, & this morning, I've unpacked a dozen boxes and the house is still pretty nice from friday's clean-and-freak binge. On the bad side, I'm not back into day mode, I haven't found the plugs for the Ikea lights attached to the shelves, and I haven't written since last week.

Maybe I should make some coffee.