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Pay the State Legislators $300,000 per year, and give them each 10 Analysts paid
$150,000-$200,000 discretionary, to hire the best.

The Assembly is currently 80 people paid $104,118/year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Assembly

The Senate is currently 40 people also paid $104,118/year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Senate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Legislature


Intelligent people demand money for their credentials. To hire intelligence to run our State, you must pay more money. True professionals hope to earn up to $300,000 per year.

The Superintendent of your local school board is paid $250,000. The chief of police is paid over $130,000. College Professors at public Universities are paid
over $150,000, UC Chancellors are paid even a little OVER $300,000. The private
sector pays the creme de la creme of doctors, lawyers and businessmen $250,000-$350,000. On the other hand, there's almost no reason when hiring someone to pay them over $125 per hour, or $250,000 per year base salary. Some Investment Bankers and Corporate lawyers work 80 hours per week, 9:00am-11:00pm (with a free dinner), and weekends less, to make up to $500,000 or a little more.
The average major-city chief salary across the country was $193,692. The annual
salary of a U.S. District Court judge increased is $199,100. A California Superior Court Judge's median wage is $176,000. The District Attorney is paid $262,000.
If you want to know why are state is in the mess it is, look right at the State Legislature's pay. You get what you pay for! You get what you pay for!!


See how much more your governmental leaders are being paid than your most important State Legislators: http://transparentcalifornia.com/agencies/salaries/#counties

https://ballotpedia.org/California_state_government_salary

http://www.sco.ca.gov/eo_pressrel_15305.html


The job of a State Legislator or Senator should be considered one of the most important jobs in the State of California. This is the State Government we're talking about. It commits 90% of the governance and law enforcement of the state.
What's going on in politics in our nation is not caused by Washington D.C! It
should be a full time job, and if there's nothing to do, find a problem, and fix
it! Lord knows there are plenty! We have to make Politics a Profession! We want
to hire professionals to lead and run this state, and PhDs, J.D.'s and MBAs demand
money for their credentials. California should hold itself up to the lofty level
that is required of it: to become the glorious State it can become, - to be a shinning becon of light to the Pacific Ocean, and the Americas.

The population of the State of California is estimated by Wikipedia to be almost
40 million. This is the size of a small country. As such, California should be
run like a country. It should have a stronger, more glorious Bill of Rights, and
more Legislators and Senators.

We should craft a new and better Bill of Rights, to be said by school children, like the Pledge of Allegiance, and to be taken by cops, so that no new prohibitions may abridge it.

But we need to pay our Legislature, so we don't hire the Quacks, Mad Scientists,
Muppets, PTA Bake Sale Mamas, and other Incompetent Idiots who destroy our State.


Paying the Legislators might not get us better service, but not paying the Legislators will ensure we won't get better service. Paying is thus a prerequisite. You will make nothing out of nothing. You may make nothing out of
something, but it's a prerequisite to have something to make something. People have to worry about their own livelihoods - at the same time they give to others.
Otherwise, only independently wealthy deca-millionaires may serve us.

Finally, if there some notion that people shouldn't be paid, then we should limit
everyone's income, not just the State Legislator's. Then we have to take into account savings. We need capital savings for labor, and in that case, perhaps everyone needs to have a forced capital savings account only for investment or business.

Pay them $300,000, or else make it $200,000 or less for everyone in the country.

$600,000 max for everyone in country is for if you want to make sure everyone's on
board, including those who want their incentive to work for big money, and including those who effectively take two jobs - while other's don't have one, working 80 hours a week making $300,000 x 2.

Taking this argument to its logical extreme, we would pay $25/hour to everyone. Then we would pay $5 in taxes, and $5 in a forced capital savings account only to
be used for investment or business and never for personal use. Then we would all
have $15/hour after taxes, or $2,600 per month. Everyone would be able to afford
at most $200,000 in home mortgage per person (probably at 0 money down - or they'd
never save the 20%), and less than a $10,000 car (and there are currently no cars
for $10,000 brand new). Transportation is an issue. You have to think if there
may be any other implications.

Also, we are here to be lead and be served, not ruled. Everyone in office should
affirm they are a here to lead and to serve, and not to rule us. They are a here
to lead us to the Truth, and to serve the Truth, and nothing more nor less.



Increasing the size of the State Legislature is a good idea too. New Topic:

At 80 people, the California State Assembly is nearly 1 Legislator for every 500,000 Californians.
At 40 people, the State Senate is currently nearly 1 Senator for every 1,000,000
Californians.

Two determine the number of Legislators and Senators, we have to balance two things:
1) Representation,
2) A Manageable Size to the body.
The Size of the U.S. House of Representatives was capped at 435 in 1911. There are currently standing proposals to increase the size by less than 100 more Representatives or so, today.

In 1790, the first Census of the United States indicated 3,929,214 people. In 1791 the U.S. House of Representatives had 69 people in it, or 1 Representative for every 56,945 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

I believe the ideal number of people per representative to be somewhere between 30,000-60,000 people per Representative. But we have to balance that against a manageable body. If we were to have 1 California State Legislator for every 80,000 people, we would have a 500 person State Assembly, and this is my suggestion. This could be allowed to grow with the State population perhaps up to
a little over 600. Eventually, we could have 650 State Assemblymen for 65,000,000
Californians or 1 per every 100,000 Californians, and cap it at that, or reduce that size if it became too unwieldy, to less than 600 or 500, as that may be too high.

I further suggest the State Senate be increased to 200 total, not to be increased
higher.

If we were to have 1 California State Legislator for every 40,000 people, we would
have a 1,000 person State Assembly, which would be too many Assemblymen in my opinion.


By comparison, the number of seats in the lower house of State Legislatures varies
from a high of 400 in New Hampshire to a low of 40 in Alaska. The table below lists the 10 states with the highest and lowest populations and the population per
legislator. California has by far the largest population per district, New Hampshire the lowest:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/12/31/business/31dec-economist-bartlett/31dec-economist-bartlett-blog480.png

The following chart from the National Conference of State Legislatures lists them all:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/2010-constituents-per-state-legislative-district.aspx

By comparison, the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C. has 435 members, while the U.S. Senate is 100 Senators for 325,000,000 Americans nationwide. This is 1 per 747,426, and 1 per 3,250,000, respectively.

For comparison, the French Senate is 348, and the French National Assembly is 547:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Parliament
The population of France is 65,000,000, (on 248,573 square miles).
This is 1 per 186,781, and 1 per 118,829, respectively.

The comparison, the British House of Commons is 650 Members, and the British House
of Lords is 805 Lords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
The population of the U.K is also 65,000,000 (on 93,628 square miles).
This is 1 per 100,000, and 1 per 80,745, respectively.

I'm not suggesting we imitate our European allies, just throwing that comparison
out there.

The population of California is 39,000,000 (on 163,696 square miles).


3/29/2017 time spent so far on this: 45 minutes. And no one's paying me $125 an
hour to write this.

4/4/2017: 15 minutes more.
4/4/2017: Another 15 minutes more.
4/5/2017: Another 7 minute review and edit

4/7/2017 30 more minutes
4/15/2017 another 30 minutes

Unpaid legislatures may indicate some crypto evil at work against our country trying to subvert us. Of course, perhaps some people don't like government. Why
would they pay right. But what they get is bad government, when they don't pay.
We need a government.

I would suggest we could hire more intelligent people, and more people full time,
to solve the problems our State faces.

Like, maybe they're like, "we don't want this government shit," and then they don't pay, but people are like still using the government to do evil.

Incredulous, frustrated, and outraged by the following sh*t:

http://www.ncsl.org/research/about-state-legislatures/full-and-part-time-legislatures.aspx

These Legislatures are forming the true Constitution of our Country with their every statute. The State is responsible for 90% of the law enforcement and prisoners in each State. How can we afford to have "part time" legislatures without any staff members?! Without State Legislatures, we have no country!

Without State Legislatures, we have no country!!

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