Jackson Jambalaya

Can kicked——

Reform my ass. They caved to the mayors.

I’m no economist, but if Republicans want to get more Democratic votes then maybe they should explain how Biden wanting to raise the capital gains tax to 44 percent on some people will likely hurt the stock market and therefore likely hurt their pensions.

I mean, I can’t see the future.

0% chance it will pass the House

Mend it or end it. Where are the adults in the room?

MS Legislature is filled with pathetic, simpering children.

Attn 12:00 AM Do you have any idea of the intelligent levels of the members of both state houses?.

6:28
So just don’t do anything? Ok …..

End or amend the 13th check as it is unreasonable to be put on the back of taxpayers! No other companies write check like that!

Ducklings following a goose. The whole bunch has laid an egg.

It's so like Kingfish to call this 'reform'.

He and the usual 'haircut' guy are so very disappointed.

@1:24, where have you worked that you're not familiar with annual raises. They're common in the private sector, but not in the public sector.

As a PERS retiree, I can remember, before retirement, going 8 years at a time with no salary increase and then it was often fifty bucks a month increase, which after taxes, was a dollar a day.

At some point, the Plan will run out of money and the state will default on its pension debt to current and past employees. The blame will lie with this legislature for not finding its contractual obligations.

Mississippi Government: of the parasites, by the parasites, and for the parasites.

"Parasites"?

Remember your characterization the next time you call an ambulance, need a policeman at the site of your wreck, head over to UMMC for trauma care, meet with your child's teacher to discuss F grades or wait for test results in order to stop boiling your water.

Yes, it’s fundamentally unfair that the political class has facilitated a financially unsustainable pension scheme for themselves and other government workers that is far more generous than what the vast majority of private sector workers receive. This scheme is backed by the full faith and credit of the state government. This means that taxpayers that must save for their own retirement are on the hook for the retirement of a privileged class of workers. It is by its nature parasitic.

And as we found out during Covid and the subsequent raging inflation. The occupations you reference aren’t anymore critical than everyone else. The assertion that public employees should hold some special status in our society is extremely condescending. Everyone that works is important, and we should avoid pretending that public employees are more deserving of a decent standard of living and special protections from inflation than others.

1:30 You and each employee had an opportunity to seek other employment opportunites so why should tax payers pick up your tabs? Since you did not work in private sector, how do you know what our raises were?

The bill passed the House with only one vote CASE in opposition.

"Case" should be "cast."

PERS should be frozen. 13th check eliminated. Current participants should be rolled into a defined contribution plan. State workforce needs a 10% headcount reduction.

1:18 asked, "Since you did not work in private sector, how do you know what our raises were?"

After state retirement I worked in the private sector for another 22 years. Part of my duties involved local, area, state and regional wage and salary benefit surveys on an annual basis. I was also involved in developing compensation tables for the three corporations which employed me.

"PERS should be frozen. 13th check eliminated. Current participants should be rolled into a defined contribution plan. State workforce needs a 10% headcount reduction."

Thanks for dropping by Delbert. But I thought you knew more about contract law.