O'BRIEN: Don't 'Mass Up' NH's Public Employee Pension System

O'BRIEN: Don't 'Mass Up' NH's Public Employee Pension System

Governor Ayotte’s advocacy for increasing public employee pension benefits, particularly for some Group II employees, by fattening the payment calculations and returning to such gimmickry as working huge numbers of overtime hours in the last years in the system in order to “spike” the annual retirement payout, may seem necessary to fulfill a campaign promise. Still, it disregards critical commitments made to taxpayers over the years and, in part…