The Buckeye Institute for Policy Solutions has an interesting report out called “The Grand Bargain is Dead.” The bottom line of their report is: The state of Ohio has an $8 billion budget gap, state government workers make much more than their private sector counterparts (not to mention that there are too many of them), and fixing this enormous compensation imbalance is the key to addressing the state’s deficit.

The report proposes a menu of solutions such as realigning government pay to private sector pay or having government workers pay the same share of health-care premiums as workers in the private sector do.

The report is way worth reading, and if you are in Ohio it is worth writing to your Congressman to complain.