45. Sell the state jet.

Steven Terrell has published, link, a list of cost saving measures Governor Bill Richardson could undertake without enabling legislation.

I would suggest that the legislature is probably ill advised to be
"meddling" in the day to day spending of tax dollars. That said,
the suggestion presupposes that "someone else" would perform
the function of looking at the spending of every last penny,
with the idea that no more pennies will be wasted.

Realistically, the only folks we could depend on to do that,
and do it well, would be those in the trenches where the
tax dollars are actually spent.

The Republican list includes a near miss in that vein;

"32. Ask employees to identify programs, processes and tasks that they perform that contribute little or nothing to the mission of the agency. Cut those activities."

Yeah, like that's ever going to happen.