[mrsmith]

No one minds military pensions being cut-as appropriate. The appropriate cutting of them would be last and least.

The principle is that no legislature can bind a later legislature. It would make a mockery of their democratic nature.
I assume the judge found something in the state’s constitution that bound the legislature to the contract.
Using some counterargument to the old “the constituion is not a suicide pact” reasoning..

[HarleyD]

Personally, I mind. Pensions should not be cut-neither military, government or public. It undermines agreements by which people have made financial decisions. There is nothing wrong with reducing pensions/social security on the future workforce. But cutting existing pensions on people who are either retired or planning to retire is just plain wrong.

How many will complain when the government takes everyone's 401K? They will do it under the same guise of trying to fix the budget.