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Steve it doesn't matter what the retirement age is. Once a uniform employee retirees the healthcare benefit is for free for the rest of them and dependents life.

The city cannot afford to pay the existing pension benefits alone. Adding free lifetime healthcare will hasten our path toward insolvency. The unions need to realize that they cannot have it all. By doing an analysis that can be proven.

Your not getting a raise because the Mayor knows we can't afford to pay pension COLA's (Isn't it strange how that becomes active employee responsibility and you not getting a raise?) Why not break the link between COLA payment and raises? The Mayor is afraid to even discuss this option.

So tell me how are taxpayers going to afford a 3.75% increase every year for the next twenty years as contained in the Police/Fire I funding plan? If you get future raises the retiree get future raises and more money will be needed. Read my response to the editorial on this topic.

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