Budget-slashing Wisconsin state treasurer plans to cut his own job

Wisconsin state treasurer Matt Adamczyk took office a little over a month ago, and he expects to be leaving it soon. He campaigned on the promise to trim wasteful state expenditures — including the existence of his own job, which has been rendered mostly irrelevant by other state offices — as soon as possible.

"I'm a big believer in efficiency," Adamczyk explains. "I've always just thought that this office doesn't really have any duties left."

Adamczyk has already eliminated several needless positions and expenses, like a never-used iPhone for which the state was paying a service fee of $58 per month. He will give a quarter of his own salary back to the state until nixing his position, which will require a state constitutional amendment, can happen in 2017.

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