<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">re pensions - Every state should take a long look at Alabama (yes, Alabama!). The director of the teacher's pensions could have been a billionaire if he had chose to. 'We' own buildings in NYC that we rent out. We own a 4 star hotel on Mobile Bay. We own a Robert Trent Jones golf trail that people from all over the world come to play. He has been able to fight off the legislators who want to tap the fund for their pork. It really is an amazing story for such a backwards state (I have lived in Tennessee Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, and for most things Alabama is the most backward.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 10:08 AM Bill Hibbard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Spike Jones wrote:<br>
> Counterproposal: government workers have a base salary. If the<br>
> fed takes in less money than necessary to pay everyone, then<br>
> the salaries are reduced by that fraction.<br>
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That is sort of how the WI state retirement system works.<br>
When investments are good pensions go up, when investments<br>
are bad pensions go down. So unlike many other states, the<br>
WI state retirement system is essentially fully funded.<br>
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