New Michigan law: “The income tax rate on public employee pensions and benefits shall be 50%”
That would be my solution too, although the rate may not be high enough. ANY pension shortfall can be resolved if you set the rate high enough. Maybe liberal judges will rule you can't reduce their compensation, but no liberal would rule to establish a precedent that you can't tax anything as much as government wants. John Roberts on ObamaCare provides the Supreme backstop. Invoke withholding and collect it before the pensioners get their cut. But if you really think like a lib there's an even easier way. Remember the KC, Mo. School District desegregation judge? He just imposed the taxes himself; however high he felt were needed. Invoke those cases and dare people in Detroit to call them racist.