2007 House Bill 4571 (Increase certain state employee pensions )

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Introduced by Rep. Rick Jones (R) on April 5, 2007, to increase the pension benefits of state employees whose age and years of employment add up to at least 80, who retire after Sept. 30, 2007. The bill would increase the multiplier used to calculate the retirement benefits of these employees from 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, which would increase the cash portion of their pension benefits by 16.7 percent.
- Referred to the House Government Operations Committee on April 5, 2007.

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1) Re: Pension Increase [by Mike Hignite on December 14, 2008]

I am interested in your comments. Why do we continue to have lazy workers on state payrolls, as you have informed us? Why aren't they fired? Why pay someone to not do the work needed? There should be plenty of unemployed private sector workers ready to work for the state and give an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. I know that the Department of Treasury is overworked based on the responses I've received from workers when I've called for information. They are years behind even entering information on state SBT returns, much less auditing, examining, etc.

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2) Re: Yeah, Right [by Michpatriot on December 13, 2008]

Ashamed?remember, you're talking about state slugs here. They think that they are entitled to whatever they can get.

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3) Yeah, Right [by Anonymous Citizen on November 27, 2007]
go into any state office and then tell me that you want to steal more of MY MONEY to give to the state teat sucklers... You folks are delusional. Everybody else in this state is losing pay, pensions, jobs, houses and you want to bleed us even more? You oughta be ashamed.
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