Promises made should be promises kept.
Promises made should be promises kept.
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If you work for a company that promised you a pension and they go under who keeps that promise?
Politicians promise these benefits that the taxpayers are forced to pay. Why not put it up to the taxpayer what benefits and how much gets promised? After all we are the employer
A government job should be one step above welfare, just like in the old days.
It would reflect the sort of "service" we get from our gruberment servants Masters.
I’ve seen that opinion expressed here before (that the pensions must be paid), and I understand the sentiment, but what happens when the entity making the promise (a municipality, county, or state) can’t keep the promise? You expect people to keep promises made by previous voters, but what is happening in NJ, NY, and CA is that new generations (who never made those promises) and employers are fleeing rather than being forced to fund them. The illegal aliens and welfare populations being left behind have no intention of paying for those pensions (or anything else, for that matter).
Who pays for them then?
“Promises made should be promises kept.”
Let’s start with the promises made with the founding of the country before lecturing us about the “promise” of folks taking other peoples hard work with the government as the intermediary.
I don’t think SS, federal, and military pensions especially as presently lavished would survive a Constitutional assessment of “promises”, do you?