Retirement incomes not rising as fast as the cost of government | Letter

Published 1:30 am Friday, December 30, 2016

State and Federal retirement incomes have been reduced to less than one percent yet the cost of government has risen by double digits. The puny amount is poking large holes in our budgets.

It’s time for government employees, staff and politicians, to feel the pinch like us on fixed income that needs the income to maintain our standard of living, not decrease it.

Robert L. Style, Kirkland