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By: California’s Latest Pension Hubris-steal From Private Sector Workers - California Political Review

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 05:05:55 +0000

[…] made that promise, I wouldn’t need to be saving for retirement. Remember when state officials promised that a 50-percent pension-increasing law in the late 1990s wouldn’t cost taxpayers a dime? It […]

By: California’s Latest Pension Hubris – Freedom's Back

California’s Latest Pension Hubris – Freedom's Back — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:12:14 +0000

By: California’s Latest Pension Hubris - Novus Vero

California’s Latest Pension Hubris - Novus Vero — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 07:13:31 +0000

By: California’s Latest Pension Hubris | TrumpsMinutemen

California’s Latest Pension Hubris | TrumpsMinutemen — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:25:21 +0000

By: California Gov. Jerry Brown: 'A Lot of Cities Signed Up for Pensions They Can’t Afford' | Libertarian Party of Alabama Unofficial

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 18:28:24 +0000

[…] the state Legislature passed a pension-increase plan in 1999, known as Senate Bill 400, cities throughout the state eagerly embraced CalPERS’ grandiose predictions that it wouldn’t […]

By: California Gov. Jerry Brown: ‘A Lot of Cities Signed Up for Pensions They Can’t Afford’

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:14:25 +0000

[…] the state Legislature passed a pension-increase plan in 1999, known as Senate Bill 400, cities throughout the state eagerly embraced CalPERS’ grandiose predictions that it […]

By: City services slashed to fund pensions, but your taxes are still going up - California Political Review

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 14:53:34 +0000

[…] starting date), pension increases would spread across the state. Indeed, they did. CalPERS said it wouldn’t cost taxpayers a “dime” because of stock-market growth, but then the market […]

By: Greenhut: City services slashed to fund pensions, and now your taxes are going up, too! - California Political Review

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 04:34:29 +0000

By: Cities Facing Fiscal Mess Plead With CalPERS as Pensions Consume Budgets - Top

Cities Facing Fiscal Mess Plead With CalPERS as Pensions Consume Budgets - Top — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 05:45:05 +0000

[…] retroactive pension increases for public-safety officials across the state wouldn’t cost taxpayers “a dime” because investment returns would make up the difference. The fund was laughably wrong, and their […]

By: The Grass Gets Greener: New Data Tells Old Story of Public-Employee Greed – The Conservative Insider

Thu, 04 May 2017 04:30:11 +0000

[…] to grant 50-percent retroactive pension increases to the California Highway Patrol in 1999 (in a plan that then spread across the state), they argued that such a deal was needed for retention. But the […]