<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:08 AM Bill Hibbard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> Counterproposal: government workers have a base salary. If the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>fed takes in less money than necessary to pay everyone, then<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>the salaries are reduced by that fraction.</blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That is sort of how the WI state retirement system works.<br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Sometimes state governments have no choice but to do things like that because unlike the federal government they don't have the superpower to create money from nothing.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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