Our esteemed governor on his way out the door is handing out bonuses to state employees.

No raises this time, but they're calling them bonuses.

If you get more money, that's a raise, isn't it?

You can call it bananas if you want.

If I'm handing you money, more money than you had the year before, that's a raise, right? No, I make the distinction. Really? Yeah, because that bonus is being

taxed at a higher level than your payroll check. But they're the state. Yeah, I guess,

but it's not a raise. Where did the money come from? It came from us. It came from us, right? since I paid for my own bonus. Yeah, okay. So he is handing out $1,250 to full-time, what they call executive branch employees, $1,250, and $650 to

part-time and inter, what they call part-time and intermittent employees.

That's going to cost the state between $20 and $22 million.

That's a lot of money.

That's a lot of money.

There are now 32,000 full-time state employees, and that is, the Capital Chronicle backs

is up, the highest in a very long time. Now, this is very

offensive to me because during the 2020 governor's debate, Holcomb talked about how there was

no room to cut in state government. He described it as being cut to the bone. And that is complete

crap because my taxes in the state as we started about the show off today talking about

have never been higher in this state yet there's $22 million just laying around I didn't get a

bonus didn't Diego do the same thing well right all and they raised all the all of these statewide

office holders got these huge raises the The state legislature gave themselves huge raises.

And their bonuses to all the employees.

Right.

And you and I, who have to produce to give these people their money, are struggling to get by, are struggling to hang on, have to earn every penny we get.

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