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Expendable_Red_Shirt t1_iyes2c4 wrote

Good. The term limits are stupid but not as dumb as a pension for 8 years of work.

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danhalka t1_iyew6a0 wrote

its almost funny... It was Maryland Public Policy Institute (a conservative thinktank pushing Question K) that robo-texted me just this morning urging me to call the mayor's office and demand that he veto 22-0292.

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EthanSayfo t1_iyf1ons wrote

I looked them up after getting the same text. I was like, what do I do with this info...

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DeathStarJedi t1_iyf4a6h wrote

Not the biggest Mayor Scott fan, but I gotta give credit where credit is due. Thank you sir!

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AdDue1062 t1_iyfch01 wrote

I'm in the same boat. Can't really stand the guy, but respect the call. I still assume it's positioning and will reemerge in a bit and pass under the radar barrelled into some other bill.

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megalomike t1_iyf2sc3 wrote

How happy is scott that mosby keeps serving him up big fat softballs of competence every six months.

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pk10534 t1_iyfc3ak wrote

I’m glad the mayor listened to the people and not the politicians, and that Councilman Cohen was against this bill as well

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Thewolf1970 t1_iyf5p6l wrote

Or they could convert to a contributory plan with a match and vest immediately like many city governments do.

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jojammin t1_iyf554m wrote

Wait, all city employees get a pension after working for 12 years? How much?

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jeepinaroundthistown t1_iyf7fb5 wrote

They probably get vested after 12. How much depends on service time and contributions, usually.

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joculator t1_iyezmz7 wrote

Just dissolve the city already. Sell it to the Chinese.

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sllewgh t1_iyf3j33 wrote

This would be a stupid thing to say in any context, but it isn't even relevant here at all.

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EthanSayfo t1_iyf22eq wrote

This has already been done to a decent portion of the US economy, including huge amounts of real estate, the most popular social network that is almost certainly closely monitoring our people and youth...

I know you were being snide, but you probably could have picked a more compelling buyer than "the Chinese." I will take Baltimore as-is over Chinese totalitarianism any day.

Sell it to the Chinese? You were also one of the people complaining about masking policies and VERY short-term shutdowns, weren't you...

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sit_down_man t1_iyf84i4 wrote

China’s far from perfect, and pretty shitty in many ways after liberalization; but let’s not pretend the US wouldn’t be in a vastly better place had we spent the last decade or two doing Belt & Road shit instead letting out infrastructure dissolve lol.

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app_priori t1_iyfa534 wrote

Yeah but the Chinese would want the service fees and rent payments and us not criticizing them then...

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EthanSayfo t1_iyfbwo1 wrote

I have many, many qualms with my country, its leadership, core economic principles, I could go on, and on, and on. I have been really clear about how stacked it is since I was pretty young, and I am definitely less young now (not old!)

I just don't see cryptocurrencies, as realized for the most part, as the solution to these problems. I think it's actually another problem, and we need less problems.

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