Govt. salaries query (Little Upsilon)

Got a question regarding govt. salaries.

My LIFERS (lazy inefficient f(ools) expecting retirement soon) working for the government are paid way too much, and my new Labor Minister has suggested cutting their salaries.

The question is, do these people contribute to the overall country welfare and the "rich people's" investments in the IF? If I lower salary for government (12B per month govt. cost is outrageous for a country only clearing 25-30B a month)workers will it have a knock on effect on anything else in the country, or is it safe?

I know from docs and other threads that you can go as low as 50%, with the general feeling being somewhere around 75% works good. Right now I'm running it on auto and the salary index is 280 for government.

I don't want to tank my welfare, and my IF is just crawling upwards, finally breaking the 1.00 profit, so I don't want to lose investment money either.

Any thoughts? Muchas gracias. Domo arigato, even.

IMO, keep the gov sals at least 75% of general average. Too low and you'll lose key workers in health and ed and military to other corps. This enables CEOs to get away with really low salaries which doesnt help your economy (income tax, production and so CRU etc). And to lose hospitals and universities is a bugger, military not so bad because they just get de-activated.

Now of course the other side of the coin is you can pay state corps lower sals which seems to be the way to get max profit out of them at the moment, and of course you save on the gov costs if you run low govt sals with low state corp sals.
You are going to lose some income tax and the pop wont be so wealthy for investing and your welfare is effected by lower salaries, so its up to you really, more cash right now or a safer stronger growing economy.

Again rep, there's probably as many correct answers to your question as there are successful players.

CC

It's all a matter of finding your personal comfort zone then.

My current govt. workers (except HT and executives) actually make more than my private industry. And I pay my state corps an outrageous salary by game standards, so I could probably get away with lowering the govt. some without damaging my scores. I like happy people, try to keep my welfare in the high 120s-low 130s.

Thanks.