But that only hides the fact that the majority of the rest of the state (similar to "flyover country" nationally) is red. The dense populous areas are dictating policy for the rest of the state, when those policies don't necessarily align. Most of our Democrat Governors in the past have been rather moderate or only slightly left of center, because they realized they had a large portion of the state they had to pander to. Beshear is just a Political hack trying to take the state further to the left and there are a whole lot of rural citizens in this state who might oppose such measures.
They should have started that hissy fit loooong before Bevin became Governor. Like I said, I hate some of the things Bevin says, i don't disagree with you there. but at least he was trying to find solutions to a problem that was created long before him and only worsened when Beshear was governor. Talk about somebody "Screwing with your money".
Gatewood died too soon - he'd have a shot these days.
Devoe for Lt. Gov.
wrong on chron and gambol. wrong as well. Pension debt is what, $14B and rising at $500M per year?
When I looked at the weed numbers I came up with ~$100m. Gambling has been diluted now that about every state has them. Silly we don't have either considering we are the state of horse gambling, pills, bourbon, etc.Bevin voter but agree he’s
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Anyone that thinks those two things are going to fix the pension issue are
I did some digging on this before but using comparable Indiana (gambol) and Colorado (chron...and scaled proportionally to KY pop) came up to something like $300M per year. Bottom line....it’s in the ballpark of the rate of increase. It’s pissing in the wind of actually reducing the number.
.....and that’s with the pension fund getting 100% of the net. Not sure why they deserve 100% of those proceeds? What about Medicaid? What about Appalachia? What about small business? What about _______?
Pension is going down and there’s no pot/gambol/tax increase that’s going to stop it.
Agree completely.
All Beshear is going to do with his ad campaign is replay Bevin's numbskull comments over and over and over again with that brooding voiceover guy that seems to be in every political ad ever made for any politician ever.
This reminds me of 2016, when I said the Republicans nominated the only guy who could lose to Hillary. Or maybe the Dems nominated the only person Trump could have beaten? Who knows. Point is things aren't always what they seem......
The teachers will get 100 cents on the dollar of the pension terms under which they were hired. The state can reduce or modify benefits for future hires if a new pension bill passes, but those currently in the system will get what they were promised. Inviolable contract laws have been challenged in other states (Illinois) and the courts have ruled that inviolable means as exactly as it sounds, something that cannot be violated.
Detroit is completely irrelevant in the conversation around Kentucky’s pension issues. Federal law allows cities and other local municipalities to declare bankruptcy but the ability to declare bankruptcy doesn’t apply to state governments.
