To be strictly accurate, public employees pay NOTHING into their retirement, the taxpayers pay for it all - salary, retirement, medical.
Public employees wouldn’t have dime one if there were no taxpayers from whom to seize the wealth.
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To be fair, some government employees get a salary, and then get to decide how much to put into pension, insurance, and what is left goes to salary.
Some will accept less salary to get a bigger pension. In that case it is like a 401K. Such an employee should get a bigger bite at the bankruptcy apple, to my way of thinking, because it was his money that he gave the crooked government to invest for him, and was victimized.
Doubt it was that was for a unionized police force.