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Op-Ed: Quick fixes for PERA bringing more risk

Instead of talking about real reforms to make PERA solvent in the long-run, legislators are looking at cheap, easy credit as a “quick fix” to its budgetary woes.

Colorado PERA’s "pensionomics" nonsense

If PERA hadn’t taken the money in the first place, then the taxpayers and the government workers could have bought stocks and bonds themselves. Instead of having to give money to PERA, state government workers ought to be allowed to keep their own pension savings (like private sector employees can do in an IRA).

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