Koch brothers sponsor pension reform seminar for judges

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As state courts across the nation prepare to referee numerous public pension reform disputes, a gaggle of interested parties — from major corporations to the Koch brothers — will next week sponsor an expenses-paid conference on public pension reform for judges who may decide the cases’ fates.

Conference funders, which include ExxonMobil, Google and Wal-Mart, could benefit from efforts to slash benefits for public employees. Alternative approaches to shore up state budgets would likely require higher corporate taxes, fewer corporate subsidies and reduced government services, all of which would be bad for business.

The three-day gathering in a Charleston, S.C., hotel is hosted by George Mason University’s Law & Economics Center.

The “Judicial Symposium on the Economics and Law of Public Pension Reform,” according to a George Mason event description, is intended to “comprehensively outline the underlying structure of pension systems, address the differences between public and private pensions and detail the unfunded liabilities and potential bankruptcy issues arising from this crisis.”


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http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/04/25/14662/koch-brothers-major-corporations-sponsor-pension-reform-seminar-judges

[octoberlib]

1. This is bullshit!

Is there anything in this country that hasn't been corrupted by the Kochs?

[LongTomH]

2. Believe it or not: There was a day in America when "reform" meant something else than cutting.....

......services to working people, the elderly and poor.

[MADem]

3. Let's start with "reforming" the pensions of judges...a few protests towards that mindset

might help to re-educate the judges from the Koch-spoonfed perspective.

[upaloopa]

4. The title of the seminar is wrong.

It should be "more ways to widen the income gap"

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Finally the natives awaken.

Been bitching about this shit for years. Our chicken shit media won't touch this subject. Thanks for posting this story more people need to open their eyes. So much for the job creators,huh.

[justhanginon]

6. "Expenses paid conference". No perception

of impropiety there despite the sponsors. I wonder if they will publish a list of the esteemed jurists attending this "expenses paid conference" in the press. One can only imagine the bias in the presentations hoping the judges will take it back with them to their respective courtrooms.
On the other hand it seems just fair. Since the aforementioned corporations and the infamous brothers have already purchased a good part of the supreme court and virtually all of congress maybe they think it is their turn to get in on a little of the action. And the expenses are paid after all.