{"id":441,"date":"2008-04-04T05:28:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2008\/04\/04\/legislative-pay-raise-passes-senate-finance\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T05:28:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:28:44","slug":"legislative-pay-raise-passes-senate-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/legislative-pay-raise-passes-senate-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative pay raise passes Senate Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Calibri\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.grandpatucker.com\/images\/pig-mindscape.gif?resize=1%2C1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\">\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.grandpatucker.com\/images\/pig-mindscape.gif?resize=245%2C222\" height=\"222\" \/><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">In what is supposed to be a lean budget year, the Senate Finance committee passed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scstatehouse.net\/cgi-bin\/query.exe?first=DOC&amp;querytext=1124&amp;category=Legislation&amp;session=117&amp;conid=3646599&amp;result_pos=0&amp;keyval=1171124\">S. 1124 <\/a>which calls for an automatic increase of State Employee retirement COLA (cost of living adjustment) of 2% every year. I was open to this notion at first. This is all well-and-good for our dedicated state employees, but here\u2019s the big catch: it includes the retirement for members of the General Assembly. Upon further research, I have found how\u00a0the retirement system for legislators is superior than that of our teachers and our D.O.T. crewmen.\u00a0It would be good for us to reconsider the inclusion of the General\u00a0Assembly&#8217;s system in this increase.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">Here\u2019s the basic difference between the Legislator\u2019s Retirement and the State Employees retirement.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">State Employees: 1.42% x years of service x salary<br \/>\n<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\">General Assembly: 4.82% x years of service x salary<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><br \/>\n<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri\">Since the 2% increase is across the board, the gap between the two will be even greater.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In what is supposed to be a lean budget year, the Senate Finance committee passed S. 1124 which calls for an automatic increase of State Employee retirement COLA (cost of living adjustment) of 2% every year. I was open to this notion at first. This is all well-and-good for our dedicated state employees, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-77","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}