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BRCI - The Morning After Tax Revolt Pill
By JL "Buzz" Aguirre | 05/21/09 | 02:30 PM EDT | 3 Comments
BRCI - The Morning After 1A-1F Pill, Tough to Swallow, But May Just Resore Joe the Taxpayer's Health
For those who believe California can be better and should want pressure in the system more than ever, should pick up on Pareto’s Rule, aka as the 80-20 Rule, which goes something like this:
- 20% of the input creates 80% of the result
- 20% of the workers produce 80% of the result
- 20% of the customers create 80% of the revenue
- 20% of the bugs cause 80% of the crashes
- 20% of the features cause 80% of the usage
- 20% of the politicians have taxpayer's interest in mind
- 20% of....you get the idea.....
Now, consider that the corps of lobbyists is a defacto California’s third house given that registered lobbyists outnumber lawmakers in Sacramentoa ate the tune of 8-to-1, then there are the government funded unregistered lobbyists, such as the California Law Revision Commission or even the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) – as President Reagan might say, organized labor in the public sector and bureaucracies self-replicate exponentially and with reckless abandon until it sucks all the life out of any form of government or semblance of macro-economic system it encounters in its path.
LAFCO for instance, created a public committee (circa July 2006) intended to end 30 years of squabbling between Newport Beach and Costa Mesa about which city should control unincorporated county islands including Santa Ana Heights and Banning Ranch. One of the first acts of the new group was to agree not to speak to the press about the issues until resolved. After all, who cares about transparency, right?
Just like LAFCO, the California bureaucracy is littered with organizations such as the California Law Revision Commission, a government funded group of unregistered lobbyists doing the work the legislature is paid to do, and should do.
In the past, we have argued that taxpayers deserve efficient government, and by helping to identify and eliminate unnecessary bureaucracies, such as LAFCO, the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC), the Community Association Institute (CAI), the California Real Estate Commission and others would make government more cost effective and responsive.
The California Budget Deficit will not be effectively dealt with until a Bureaucracy Realignment and Closure Initiative (BRCI) is fully implemented to eliminate or significantly downsize wasteful bureaucracies and program - read, close down some 80% of useless commissions such as LAFCO and the CLRC and let elected officials make the tough decisions instead of hiding behind tax-payer funded lobbying groups.
BRCI is a tough pill to swallow, but if taken immedaitely the morning after a tax revolt, it is gauranteed to purge the political system and restore Joe the Taxpayer to as close to normal health as possible - given he is still Joe the Taxpayer, and keeping in mind President's Reagan's advice about self-replication.
TAGS: LAFCO, TAX Revolt, CLRC, CTA, BRCI
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To the best of my knowledge the CAI is not a gov't agency. But, you are right about the California Law Revision Commission; it is time to TANK that lousey no good Commission. They are an instrumentality for industry yet they get paid by using our tax dollars. They are using their influence in places where they should not, and they have, like so many gov't conglomerates abused their authority. They are a wholly useless Department and they are responsible for bastardizing many of our laws. I've often wondered what they get under the table, if anything, and how they manage to look so innocent? They're just a little "too" involved and bloated. GET RID OF THE CALIFORNIA LAW REVISION COMMISSION and save us taxpayers some money!
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|I believe that in times like these when the common person is getting so totally screwed that even somewhat useful bureaucracies and commissions need to be suspended. One example might be the California Energy Commission. It does good work, but it is not needed when people are suffering so much. We can bring it back when things are better.
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The SSA, IRS and DMV not withstanding, the sad truth is that the CLRC is emblematic of everything that is wrong with government entities, including what I call the Voter Burger Principle: Elected officials appoint otherwise incompetent managers who quickly finds ways to do something other than what they are supposed to do (look at CLRC’s and or TCA’s mission and compare to what they do for instance), labor runs the show and Joe the Taxpayer picks up the tab.
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Just consider an accident that happened 3/29/2009 on the Toll Road, in FRONT of the cameras, CHP case NCIC-9675, at approximately 0005, on the Southbound 241 Toll Rd, the driver of a speeding white car hit a victim three times. The impact caused victim’s car to spin off into the dirt median. The victim called the Toll Road office the next day. All indications were that the perpetrator would be brought to justice in no time. Repeated calls to the CHP and or the Toll Roads have been unanswered.
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Some 16 months ago in a weekend stabbing where spirits were flowing freely and the adult owner was in the house, for some reason the OCSD has been less than cooperative.
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The last two examples are meant to be simply illustrations, not statistically valid figures. What I can assert with a high degree of certainty is that when dealing with bureaucracies the Pareto Principle aka the 80-20 Rule applies:
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20% of the workers produce 80% of the result
20% of the politicians have taxpayer's interest in mind
20% of the bureaucracies are actually useful for Joe the Taxpayer
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This is why we continue to promote a bureaucracy realignment and closure initiative. Closing the CLRC is a small step toward a fiscally responsible California.
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