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Teacher’s union lies to extort billions from taxpayers

As George Costanza, that sage son of Queens, once observed: “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”

That’s the battle plan for New York’s public-employee unions, who say Albany needs to allow their members to stop contributing to their pensions after 10 years on the job and to retire at age 55 with a full taxpayer-guaranteed, state-tax exempt pension — all for “recruitment and retention” reasons.

They don’t have evidence for this, just political threats against state lawmakers. So senators and assemblymen are doing what George suggests: believe the lie.

The unions insist that the state needs to “fix” the pension rules because, they say, reforms enacted for future employees in 2009 and 2012 (the latter commonly called “Tier 6”) have made it harder to attract and keep good employees.

This is a remarkable claim that crumbles under inspection.

New York state government set a record for the most employees hired in 2023, only to smash it in 2024. So much for that recruitment problem.

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