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Calista241

(5,586 posts)
9. Essentially all retirement funds, from anywhere, are shielded from seizure by lawsuit.
Wed May 5, 2021, 04:10 PM
May 2021

Whether it's an IRA, 401k, Roth IRA, Union funds, whatever.

If you want to make all union retirement funds assets that can be seized, be my guest, but I won't be supporting you. There's no legal way you could single out police unions from all other unions. And do we want to open up teachers, fire fighters, or other union members to this kind of civil lawsuit.

If we did this kind of thing, what we'd have is substantially less police, and less police willing to do actual police work. I'd rather cops show up and prevent crime, rather than coming by a few hours later to set up a crime scene investigation and write a report about it. If you want to go back to crime levels last seen in the 80's, then make your case for it, but you'd better welcome the election losses that come with it.

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