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Originally Posted by Derwood
it's not that hard: my household has 2 adults and 2 kids. If we decide we're not going to eat at restaurants for a month, we'll save a little money. Simple.
a city government has hundreds (or thousands) of employees, systems of checks and balances, and hundreds of moving parts. They can't simply say "we'll just not do X for awhile to save money". It's not that simple.
To say "I can tighten my belt at home, why can't the city government?" is extraordinarily naive
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There are different types of expenses some are fixed, some variable and some discretionary. Watering grass is discretionary for a home or a city, perhaps not for a sod farm. Cutting the use of electricity is an example of a variable expense for a home or a city. And so it goes...