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Originally Posted by mohawkx

The Wisconsin Lie Exposed – Taxpayers Actually Contribute Nothing To Public Employee Pensions - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes

Gov. Scott Walker says he wants state workers covered by collective bargaining agreements to “contribute more” to their pension and health insurance plans. Accepting Gov. Walker’ s assertions as fact, and failing to check, creates the impression that somehow the workers are getting something extra, a gift from taxpayers. They are not. Out of every dollar that funds Wisconsin’ s pension and health insurance plans for state workers, 100 cents comes from the state workers.

Very easily debunked, and quite frankly, I'm surprised that author put his professional reputation at risk like that. Oh well, he'll learn too late, when he's publicly humiliated as a blatant liar. The beauty of it is that the unions' own contracts expose his lie.

Wisconsin's 267,000 public workers pay next to nothing out-of-pocket toward their pensions. State and local governments are supposed to pay half the retirement contribution, with employees paying the rest. But in Wisconsin, many union contracts stipulate that the employer -- which means taxpayers -- picks up the employee's share.

In pension and benefits, Wisconsin tops Minnesota | StarTribune.com (http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/116784878.html - broken link)

Did you get that? WI taxpayers are contractually obligated to pay 100% of WI public workers' pension contributions.