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There was NOTHING in this discussion about doing what we have to do with greater efficiency. When our personal budgets are stretched, we made do and figure out how to stretch our dollars. Why not look at the waste in government and not just idealogue handwaving but real life experience at seeing waste and listening to how to do better with less?

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Legalize marijuana and tax the heck out of it. Might save a lot of money.

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The governor should propose that the federal government drop all the requirements when federal funds are co-mingled with state funds. We'd save a lot of money. Parents of disabled adults get a pittance to be their adult children's care givers but foster homes usually are paid five times as much to do the same thing, minus the love and better knowledge of who the disabled adult is from the ones who raised him. It is because of all the useless hoops the state has to jump through to get federal funds.
I was told that when co-mingling funds for infrastructure, they have to jump through similar very expensive meaningless hoops.

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