Reply #6: Here are the statistics from CA. State Controller John Chiang's Office

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There are 428,134 state employees.
Their monthly salary is $1,497,886,455
Their yearly salary is $17,974,637,460
10% is $1,797,463,746
So that's approximately $1.8B on the backs or 428,134 people out of approximately 40,000,000
So that means that 1% of the population has to take a 10% cut in pay

There are 15,975,100 civilian workers in California. Plus the 428,134 from state employees,
means that there are 16,403,234 workers in California.

So instead of burdening 438K state employees with $1.8B in salary cuts
we could tax all 16M workers an average of $109.58 per year extra, which is approximately $9.13
per month. (The cost of approximately 1 lunch?)