In Bell, CA, Overpaid City Officials Become Overpaid Retirees (Reason Magazine): In addition to the $787,637 salary of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Bell pays Police Chief Randy Adams $457,000 a year, about 50% more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck or Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and more than double New York [...]
Milton Friedman: I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, “How do you hold down government spending?” … The only effective [...]
Notice the perfectly aligned buttons and input boxes, the carefully selected interface colors for each section of the window, the sheer attention to detail paid to the application icon. Just looking at this makes me cringe. You have to fill it in and it produces a VAT return form with a bar code. When it’s [...]
To register the sale of 2 cars and pay my long overdue taxes I had to go to 3 (three) different places, 3 desks at each office. That is only for the Revenue Office. Two more for the police. Jesus Christ, no wonder the government wants to fire 20% of all public workers. I can [...]