One answer to $300M deficit: T.P.

April 24, 2008

Well, it’s one way to attempt to balance a budget.

Maybe not the best way.

Labor leaders are recommending that Montgomery County ration inmates’ toilet paper to save costs. It’s just one of the many suggestions on a six-page memo of recommended budget cuts given to council members by the union that represents MoCo government employees.

Apparently, the inmates often “deliberately clog toilets to cause problems” at detention centers. But the director of the county’s department of corrections says the use of T.P. is not excessive.

The county’s deficit is at $297 million.

If they decide a ration is in order, how much allotted toilet paper is fair? Two rolls a week? Three?

JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor

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Posted by Jackie Sauter | Filed Under business, law, montgomery county 

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