and it is this: If your part-time citizen legislature is so busy that it's describing what it does as a full-time job, then it's doing too much.
If you want to maintain a part-time citizen legislature, then stop trying to micro-manage the state. Cut services; cut staff. (And no, I don't mean state police, or public health, or state parks, or other things that are often threatened when government faces drastic budget cuts. Cut the fat, not the meat; and don't tell me there isn't plenty of waste in our state government.) Force state government to properly account for itself. Property, income, and sales taxes: Pick one and get rid of the other two. And keep the one you pick set low. (Personally, I prefer sales tax, if we have to have a tax at all. Property tax means giving the state a lien on your property and income taxes means acting as corvée labor for the state x number of days a year. I'm not a slave — I'm a free man!, and my property belongs to me, not the state. I'm barely willing to give the state a nod when I buy something. Barely.)
In other words, stop being a burden on the citizens you claim to represent, and recognize that sometimes you just have to live within your means. And quit whining about it being a full-time job with part-time pay. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.
