Other than cutting their own salaries, politicians seem open to new and innovative methods of decreasing expenses and increasing income so they can avoid becoming one of us after the next election. I have a few suggestions:

Mandatory home schooling.

Stop manufacturing and posting speed limit signs. No one is looking at them.

Use street sweepers to fill in potholes with roadside garbage.

Raise the cigarette tax to $100 a pack.

Sell state lottery tickets door to door. The elderly, infirm and mentally incompetent have a dollar and a dream too; they just can't get a ride to the store.