Couldn't disagree more. First, 60% of the current state deficit is due to increasing health care costs. No way public employees should be singled out to pay for that. Second, PERS benefits have been reduced again and again again over the last 20+ years. The benefits are nowhere what they used to be. No  group, public or private or non-profit, has seen its benefits serve as a target of that kind. At the same time, over many decades, the corporate tax burden has fallen, fallen, fallen. These are facts. The legislature needs to address them.

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