CA salary transparency bill stalls in senate
Almost every politician in California was ready to jump on the “Let’s bash Bell” bandwagon, but now that legislation calling for salary transparency is in the senate, political officials are balking. The latest legislation would require that both municipal employees post their salaries online and state level employees as well.
The California senators are considering addressing the issue with an internal rule, which would be more flexible and easily changed.
If the California legislature was so eager to expose municipal salaries, then they should also be comfortable placing the same transparency standards on themselves. The legislature should worry less about how it’ll reflect on their campaigns, and more about what is right for Californian constituents.
Publishing all their salaries is fine, and what happens in California usually runs downhill to the rest of the states. But, showing everybody’s salaries usually pisses the average citizen off because we can see how much money they’re makin’ while they screw everybody else around, and don’t really earn their salaries anyway. If politics is involved, then you already know there is a helluva lot of wasted money involved also. It’s become the American way, which is why American Politics really suck. No pessimism here, only “truth in politics” as can be seen everyday.