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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by gnicholas on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:46AM (#14551042)
In some jurisdictions, pension guarantees have constitutional protections that may not be erasable by simply passing a bill [1]. While an amendment to the constitution (the CA state constitution, in the case cited) at issue would fix this problem, getting such an amendment passed would not be easy — at least not while many pension recipients are still alive and voting. Senior citizens generally turn out to vote more than other groups, and when their pensions are at risk you can bet they'll show up in force.

1: http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/30/california-supreme-court-w...

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Re:The Old Are Eating the Young by jk2323 on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:57AM (#14551283)
"In some jurisdictions, pension guarantees have constitutional protections that may not be erasable by simply passing a bill."

You would be surprised what bills can be passed. The 3rd Reich ("Nazi Germany") was supposed to last one thousand years by the way. It didn't. And in the end laws won't enable to circumvent the laws of nature (limited resources).

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