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Scal, I read Thecaptain's comment on the other article; I am not at all surprised, given the make-believe mayor's already-proven tax delinquencies, that another one would come to light.

It's the same lack of surprise I have at his unwillingness to realize how unrealistic and delusional his "plans" are -- and his arrogance at mindlessly repeating them, despite the clear and logical conclusion that you make about how they will actually cost the city more money.

Apparently, answering your questions with honesty is too much effort for the make-believe mayor, who thinks voters will be fooled into believing his simplistic claims that "if only one person took it, we'd save money."

That's just not how pension buyouts work -- you understand that, and to your credit you've been trying to explain that to the make-believe mayor. He just will not listen, and that's a defect in his mindset, not yours.

Your prior questions to the make-believe mayor -- which, again, he has failed to answer -- about how much it would cost to buyout a current employee's pension are entirely fair to ask, and potentially fairly easy, with some research.

On a more practical level, you've also rightly questioned who would take a lower buyout when they are essentially guaranteed a pension by doing nothing? The incentive would have to be quite high for someone to take less than they would get by staying where they are.

Alternately, the city would have to be in the middle of a fiscal disaster -- with huge numbers of layoffs and buyouts offered as essentially a last resort -- for any current employee or retiree to accept less in pension benefits.

So, either the make-believe mayor wants to borrow the city into a hole for a pension plan that requires a large numbers of employees [far more than one] to succeed, or he wants to see the city in such dire financial shape that it would be forced to cut staff and pension benefits.

This is why, in the end, he will not answer for the obvious defects in his "early pension buyout" scheme and instead simply keeps repeating his empty slogans -- there is literally no way to honestly justify or defend it.

We can add these defects to the extensive list that the make-believe mayor has willingly presented about himself, and to the many other reasons that will lead honest, taxpaying voters to overwhelmingly reject his candidacy again on Sept. 12.