A major pension policy shift in Albany is drawing sharp criticism after Governor Kathy Hochul and state Democrats agreed to partially roll back Tier 6 pension reforms, a move fiscal analysts warn could significantly increase long-term retirement costs for taxpayers.
The change reduces the salary averaging window used to calculate public pensions, a technical adjustment that critics say will meaningfully inflate lifetime benefits for future retirees. While supporters argue the revision is intended to improve hiring and retention in strained public-sector roles, opponents view it as a politically motivated concession that weakens the state’s already fragile fiscal outlook.
For New Yorkers, the concerns are escalating:
The rollback is projected to add immediate and long-term costs to city and state budgets
The reform reverses key structural savings designed to stabilize pension liabilities
Taxpayers in the private sector are expected to absorb a larger share of growing retirement obligations
The decision reflects a broader pattern of fiscal short-termism, where long-term structural discipline is repeatedly weakened in favor of labor and political alignment. In their view, the result is a steadily expanding pension burden that locks in higher costs for decades while limiting future budget flexibility.
The black woman who started the targeted campaign against Chinese restaurants in retaliation for Rick Chow being found not guilty has been identified as Alexandria Evans, who works for Hewlett Packard.
Call and ask if racially targeting people follows their code of conduct.
Katie will never attend another sporting event because the unqualified illegal immigrant who killed her was given a valid Illinois driver’s license under your watch.
Yet you spend your time chasing publicity and licking athletes’ cleats instead of doing your job properly.
Such corruption!
Only in Illinois politics can failure become a promotion.
🚨JD VANCE Must TAKE THE CHAIR from Thune🔥
Sen. Mike Lee confirmed that as VP, JD Vance is the constitutional President of the Senate. He can walk into the chamber anytime, take the Presiding Officer’s chair, and get to work.
PRESIDE over the SENATE, JD.
THE TIME IS NOW 💯🦅
What do you all think?
Will Vance do it?
Mark @MarkLynchSC,
Why are you working against President Trump by trying to get a radical leftist elected as the AG of South Carolina?
Seems like you are trying to help the radical left weaponize the office of the SC AG against Trump supporters, as @davidpascoesc already has a record of targeting Trump and his voters.
I don’t find you to be very trustworthy.
This was last summer when I did this interview, after all those mass shootings that happened.
That’s why I had to run for mayor. Change wasn’t coming from our electedofficials, so I became the change we need.
Everything I’m running on, I’ve already been advocating for and fighting for. That’s who Danielle Carter-Walters is.
The reason I’m so passionate about public safety is because I’ve been begging and pleading for help. While Governor Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and the rest of the Democratic Party here, claimed crime was down, and that were safe. I knew we weren’t safe. I’ve been trying to get us the help we needed.
That’s why I go into communities, talk to people who have lost loved ones, and visit crime scenes. This is what I’ve been working to prevent, showing what’s really happening, because our elected officials and the lying local news aren’t telling the truth. I had to give people their voice back.
Danielle Carter-Walters for Mayor-2027
The People’s Mayor
https://t.co/FRBcC9YivY
#DanielleCarterWaltersforMayor2027
#commonsensecarter
#justicecarter
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Hello Mr. Hunter Biden,
You're getting six-digit likes on every post lately. I don't have any hope to ratio you or whatever through traditional "Hello" means.
But for those uninitiated, those who are captivated by your fake-humble persona obviously PR-engineered to capture unsuspecting disaffected Republicans:
You are not some humility, witty guy turning over a new leaf. You are the ultimate proof of nepotism, everything that the so-called "Epstein Class" is supposed to represent.
Let me explain - off the top of my head.
You were a board member of USGLC. U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. The most powerful NGO that nobody's ever heard of. Last year, I documented in several threads, how Liz Schrayer, USGLC lead, took credit for ramming through a 90 billion dollar bill for Ukraine in 2024, even as @mattvanswol demonstrated that Western North Carolina got zero help in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene because FEMA threw up their hands and said they ran out of funds.
USGLC, arguably, is the most powerful NGO that nobody has ever heard of. It includes a bunch of corporations, a bunch of nonprofit leads, and ... for some magical reason, I documented, extensively, linked, that Liz Schrayer started pursuing you in 2012. During the Obama years, when you were Biden's son. Are you a former Secretary of State? No. Are you a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? No. That puts you below the average USGLC board member, by a good tier.
So what DID get you on USGLC? The only reason: that you were the son of a sitting Vice President known for corruption, and you yourself were known for corruption.
You are not "folksy." You are the worst of the worst of the elite. Most of the elite, at least, get their credentials through Georgetown/George Washington/Harvard Kennedy. You got yours purely on nepotism. Any photographs you have of yourself at motels is proof that you are so incompetent that you waste all your money, not that you come from humble beginnings. Because others like @MarcoPolo501c3 have thoroughly documented that you benefited a great deal from your nepotism.
You even tried to bait those in with saying you prefer to keep immigration "legal" - but we all know the trap that keeps illegal immgrants here: outlaw deportations, and make every immigrant case "asylum", and magically, everyone who might've been here illegally a few years ago is legal.
You may get 175K likes on your semi-subverting, PR-designed photographs. But those of us who know, know you're fake.
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This is the first time a Congress member from upstate NY has said the “Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES)” out loud.
It’s the first time one of them has gone to the federal government to ask for assistance.
It’s fitting that he talk about Copake, NY. Copake has been fighting off their industrial solar complex for almost a decade. I’ve gotten to know many of the people there. They are amazing, incredible people who’ve organized and even sued.
Bureaucrats shouldn’t get this much control over our rural towns.
Thank you @RepRileyNY for saying it OUT LOUD and for @SecRollins for being awake to what’s happening to us in this state. We need federal governmental intervention.
@nyserda is the NY agency that courts foreign solar and wind developers, promising them deals and money if they build on our prime farmland.
That’s why NYSERDA has over $2 billion dollars in its coffers right now. They need a lot of money to make destroying our land enticing to these corporations.
And they get that money from us. From the delivery charge on our electric bills.
Here we have them appointing another globalist bureaucrat who will sell out our prime farmland, grassland habitat, and water to the highest solar panel and wind turbine bidder. This is business as usual with @KathyHochul as our governor.
Zibelman is being appointed to represent the interests of Canada, England, Spain, Denmark, and Australia, all of whom have their hands in our Upstate NY grid and renewable energy destruction.
.@GavinNewsom says he wishes the vote count moved faster.
California doesn't need a governor who wishes.
California needs a governor who acts.
Change is coming!