Perhaps because 30% would only be a fraction of the needed cuts.  The necessary number is more like 75%.  Enjoy life with 75% fewer services.  Need to get your driver's license renewed in October?  Get in line by August.  Forget road plowing, buy your own plow.  Forget correctional officers, let's not bother locking anyone up because we'll have 75% fewer cops, prosecutors, and judges.  Do we want to have a State forestry division to fight forest fires, or do you think that there will be 75% fewer fires next year?