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Just Say No to Pay Increases for Government Workers
Gov. Mead’s budget prioritizes spending increases, and that’s bad news for taxpayers. One priority is the proposed increase in government worker salaries as a way to stem worker turnover. But hiking...
View ArticlePension Reform Required Before it is Too Late
Reform means higher retirement income and greater security for retirees. The creation of an asset that can be passed on to children and grandchildren. A way to eliminate unfunded liabilities for...
View ArticleWyoming’s Pension Plans – Reform, Ruin or Bail Out
Pension contributions to rise. Taxpayers now contribute $6.71 for every $1 contributed by bureaucrats. Taxpayers soon to be gouged at $7.08:1 before improvement to $6.21:1. Wyoming’s last legislative...
View ArticleWyoming’s Pension Plans – Objections to Reform
Few people understand how the state pension system works but objections to reform are legion. Even though the type of pension benefit state employees receive has virtually disappeared in the private...
View ArticleSkyrocketing Pension Costs Mean Higher Taxes or Fewer Services
Government pension plans promise to pay current and future retirees a benefit based on a defined formula. To make good on its promise, government contributes tax dollars to a pension fund and invests...
View ArticlePersonal Attacks Don’t Change Facts
Letter to the editor published in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, September 28, 2014 As is often the case, those without a response to an argument resort to ad hominem attacks, as in Rodger McDaniel’s...
View ArticleThe Public Sector Ponzi Plan
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves. Thomas Jefferson, 1813 Pension misunderstanding and...
View ArticlePension Reform – Time for a Reality Check
Introduction Imagine living in a place where anyone can have anything they want by just wishing for it. If one wants a house, one imagines a house—and poof—it appears. But scarcity is the basis for an...
View ArticlePension Reform – Who Controls our Retirement Future?
Talk of pension reform in the government sector starts the usual hand wringing among those who think they know best for everyone else. At the moment, Wyoming’s government signs most of its workers up...
View ArticleReason, Not Hysteria
This letter to the editor was published in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on November 4, 2014 under the title, Commentary on pension meeting wasn’t truthful WTE published a highly imaginative commentary...
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