[Hoot Gibson]

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on Paul's support.

Any government that robs future generations of their hard earned money to buy the votes of current and retired government employees is not worthy of anybody's support. Regressive taxes on stupidity such as lotteries and so-called "sin" taxes are not moral endeavors in which our federal and state governments should be engaged.

Retirement funding in the public sector should be paid by public sector employees, the same way that the private sector funds retirement. Any other funding method is just plain bribery and theft.