Texas Legislators Increase Their Pension By $6000

[johncoby]

Texas Legislators decided to give themselves a $6000 raise in their pensions. For a legislator what serves 12 years on a part time job that meets 140 days every two years, they can start drawing $34,000 a year at age 50. For the rest of their lives.

This is more than some of their constituents make in a full year working full time trying to raise a family.

This is just plain sick. Most workers don't get a pension. Some lost it all during the Enron fiasco. Yet these part time civil service law makers are guaranteed to make more than the poverty rate for doing absolutely nothing after the age of 50. And using our tax dollars!

This is sick.

[Talbot]

I wish i could give myself a raise whenever I wished.

[YakuzaIce]

Yeah me to

I hate that some government officials take advantage of the system like this. Wasn't Brown's administration paying retired city workers their full salaries as when they were working?

[ssullivan]

The Texas Legislature really makes me sick. They pull this crap in a special session, when they are supposed to be working on school finance. The special session was not called to discuss the pension, yet they waste time on self-serving bills and don't accomplish what they are really there to do.

We wouldn't even be having to waste taxpayer money on this special session if the Legislature had kept its priorities in order during the regular session. Instead of dealing with the school finance problem, they spent that session on other, really crucial bills like making the chuckwagon and Dutch oven official state symbols.