(一)减员。有人就要用钱,钱不够就找农民要,机关人员膨胀是农民负担居高不下的根源之一。在这方面,中央和地方都已察觉,但手下得还不够重。笔者认为现阶段至少应做到三点:一是将乡、镇及下属机构需要农民负担的人员一律减掉。现在不少乡镇及下属机构编外用人现象严重,有的甚至编外设管理层次。一些本应背“长枪”的乡镇干部,都希望挎“短枪”。背“长枪”的不够,就临时招聘。背“长枪”的即是要农民负担的。这种人员不减,势必造成 (A) attrition. Some people will use money and find enough peasants to make money. Institutional personnel inflation is one of the root causes of peasant burden. In this respect, both the Central Government and the local authorities have noticed it yet, but it is not enough for them. I believe that at this stage at least three points should be done: First, the township, towns and subordinate institutions need to be borne by farmers all the staff. Nowadays, many townships and their subordinate organizations have serious non-staff employment, and some even manage their peripherals. Some township cadres who should have carried “long spears” hoped to destroy their “guns.” Back “guns” is not enough, on the temporary recruitment. Back to the “guns” that is to farmers to bear. Such personnel will not diminish, is bound to cause