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Print In 2012, when Mayor Jerry Sanders led the push for Proposition B a ballot measure that would end guaranteed pensions for most new city hires The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board offered strong support, and nearly 2 in 3 voters approved the change. The extreme cost of public employees’ retirement benefits is the main reason the California State Auditor’s Office says dozens of cities face severe fiscal risk in coming years. The case for costly public service retirement benefits is weak, the concept long put to pasture in the private sector and deeply unfair to taxpayers. There’s no evidence it’d be hard to find government job candidates if pensions were akin to Social Security benefits. When state and local government worker pensions began rising in 1999, it was a reflection of union clout not recruitment difficulties. The result is hundreds of thousands of government retirees who often get 75 percent or more of their final pay for decades after leaving thei

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