I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
