{"id":2700,"date":"2011-03-14T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T14:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T01:14:53","slug":"why-progressives-should-support-pension-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2700\/why-progressives-should-support-pension-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Progressives Should Support Pension Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jeff_adachi_std_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Jeff Adachi<\/strong>, <em>Fog City Journal exclusive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>March 14, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Some have questioned why I, as a long-time supporter of progressive policies and programs, chose to venture into the uncharted waters of pension reform. The answer is simple.  I believe in the value of government, particularly in providing a safety net for the poor and those who need the services the government provides.  When a government no longer has the ability to provide these services, everyone suffers.<\/p>\n<p>I became aware of San Francisco\u2019s pension problem through advocating for my department\u2019s budget.  Beginning in 2005, year after year, I saw pension and benefits cost rise, while services and programs were cut or eliminated.  Funding for education, parks,\u00a0 street repair, AIDs, senior and after-school youth programs, mental health clinics, drug treatment programs and other basic services has evaporated while pension costs continue to escalate.  Today, we spend one out of every seven dollars on pension and benefit costs for city employees; in five years, it will be one out of every four dollars.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the next twelve months, pension costs are projected to increase by nearly $100 million more than last year.  Think of the number of jobs, programs and services that will have to be cut to pay this debt.  These costs come at a time when the City faces a $380 million budget deficit. The health service system is in far worse shape. The City owes $4.4 billion in unfunded health care costs for City employees and has saved only $9 million to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Some may argue that taxes should be raised to pay for these costs.  Yet progressive elected officials have shied away from putting tax measures before the voters at a time in these difficult economic times.  And even if there was a planned tax measure this November, it would have to raise $300 million &#8212; ten times what last November\u2019s millionaire real estate transfer tax was projected to raise &#8212; over the next three years to keep pace with pension costs.<\/p>\n<p>Others argue that losses in pension funds are the fault of Wall Street and that the pension problem shouldn\u2019t be solved on the backs of city employees.  But does it follow from this that taxpayers should be required to cover losses in the city worker\u2019s pension fund and should cut basic services to cover these losses?<\/p>\n<p>But there is a more compelling reason why progressive-minded persons should support pension reform.  If we don\u2019t act to ensure the sustainability of these benefits programs for city workers, the pension and health benefits system will eventually begin to fail.  Pensioners won\u2019t get their pension checks and city workers won\u2019t get their health benefits.  And the collateral damage will be that more and more city workers will have to be laid off so the city can continue to pay its pensions to retirees, adding to the national unemployment rate, which is hovering at 9 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Pension reform is a fundamentally progressive issue.  Real pension reform would be a testament to the strength of progressivism by demonstrating that we can protect jobs, services and programs by fixing our pension and benefits system.<\/p>\n<p>While conservatives have seized on rising pension and benefit costs as a vehicle to push their anti-union agenda, we cannot cede the responsibility for addressing this fiscal challenge to the right.  We must protect collective bargaining for workers, while presenting a solution that strikes an appropriate balance between our obligations to retired workers and the need for continued city services.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly, I will introduce a new ballot initiative that will help reduce costs while ensuring that the pension and health benefit system is protected for future generations of workers.  And the initiative will do so in a manner that is fair and equitable.  The highest-earning workers, including elected officials, will be asked to contribute more, while the lowest-earning workers will be entirely exempt, a lesson learned from the last pension reform effort.  The reforms will help eliminate the abuses of the pension system that benefit a few workers at the expense of others.   Residents, elected officials, city employees and labor leaders are invited to review the proposals at www.sfpensionreform.com and provide any comments or ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Reforming our pension and benefits system for city employees is a problem we must fix now.  Elected officials, especially those running for citywide office, can no longer deny that a crisis exists because they don&#8217;t want to offend city employees or labor.  The fact that pension reform is one critical component of a more comprehensive solution, which may include changes to our tax policy, generation of other revenue, and even state or federal cooperation, is no reason to excuse supporting real reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly, I will introduce a new ballot initiative that will help reduce costs while ensuring that the pension and health benefit system is protected for future generations of workers. And the initiative will do so in a manner that is fair and equitable. The highest-earning workers, including elected officials, will be asked to contribute more, while the lowest-earning workers will be entirely exempt, a lesson learned from the last pension reform effort. The reforms will help eliminate the abuses of the pension system that benefit a few workers at the expense of others. Residents, elected officials, city employees and labor leaders are invited to review the proposals at www.sfpensionreform.com and provide any comments or ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":1333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Progressives Should Support Pension Reform - Fog City Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2700\/why-progressives-should-support-pension-reform\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Progressives Should Support Pension Reform - Fog City Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shortly, I will introduce a new ballot initiative that will help reduce costs while ensuring that the pension and health benefit system is protected for future generations of workers. 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