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California doubles down on pension debt — and dares Congress to bail it out

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why the floor needs to exist before the emergency, not after it, the way nobody wanted a bigger boat until the shark had already circled the beach.

The mechanism is not novel. Congress should require any public pension plan to meet an ERISA-style prudent-investor standard and honest funding disclosure as a condition of continued tax-exempt bond financing,continue reading …

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