Pension Reform
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Steven Greenhut: In my column for City Journal, I provide insight into how the likes of Treasurer Bill Lockyer think. Lockyer’s basic response to pension reformers: We should get over our pension envy and pay more in taxes. Said Lockyer
Read MoreCalPERS reveals its true colors
Steven Greenhut: When the California Public Employees’ Retirement System — the nation’s largest retirement system, albeit one plagued by scandal — was pushing for massive retroactive pension increases for California government employees in 1999, the system released a report that,
Read MoreCA chickens coming home to roost
July 23, 2012 Katy Grimes: A fourth California city is on the verge of bankruptcy. What a surprise. Yawn. The news that Compton is about to file for federal bankruptcy protection is not surprising. But news that Santa Monica may also
Read MoreBrown: We’ll be ready for pension reform in 2105
Steven Greenhut: California Democrats insist that they really are interested in pension reform, it’s just that there are many other more important things to handle before they get to it. For instance, they are busy doubling fines for cock fighting,
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Unions on the defensive, facing voter wrath (video)
June 27, 2012 By Brian Calle Public employee unions are on the defensive after facing voter wrath at the ballot box.
Read MoreCA pension reform opponents squawking about election results
June 5, 2012 By Brian Calle Voters in San Diego and San Jose, recognizing the budget havoc wreaked by public employee pensions, the undue influence of public employee unions and the dire need for reform, voted decisively on ballot measures
Read MoreWill pension reform make leg deadline?
May 31, 2012 Katy Grimes: With the budget deadline looming, the Legislature is also facing a June 1 deadline for bills to be passed out of the house of which they originate. In the Senate yesterday during floor debate over a
Read MoreCalPERS Funding Might Be Only 40 Percent Funded
John Seiler: As we’ve been warning here on CalWatchDog.com for more than two years now, CalPERS’ funding is way too low. I’ve written before how CalPERS might only be funded at the 55 percent level. It turns out that even
Read MoreForget About Pension Reform
Steven Greenhut: Sen. Mimi Walters’ statement today speaks volumes about the chances for pension reform in California these days: “I am deeply disappointed that the Pension Conference Committee today ended public hearings without debate, discussion and a vote on the
Read MoreKamala Harris’ Totalitarianism
Steven Greenhut: California Attorney General Kamala Harris and her union allies no doubt have amused themselves at the way they destroyed a proposed pension reform initiative by giving it a false and unfair title, but what Harris did is one
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