Letter to the editor: Public servants' double-dipping is hypocritical
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On Jan. 13, I read in The Repository that Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has joined the thousands of other "public servants" in the double-dipping game ("Ohio AG draws pension while in office").
Yost and the other servants receive thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars, simply by retiring and starting to receive a healthy pension, and then immediately going back to work at their same old job, but now at sometimes nearly twice the monetary compensation when you add the pension to the current salary.
More than 12,000 public servants do this: the state's attorney general, sheriffs, judges, state legislators (representatives and senators)! What a joke! What hypocrisy! If a job merits higher compensation, then increase it; do not pervert the retirement system.
And please do not justify the practice by saying it's legal. It may be legal, but it is hypocritical and a slap in the face to all other ordinary workers who recognize that a pension or retirement income is to be received after one has indeed retired from the active workforce.
End the absurdity: Change the law or the retirement eligibility requirements, so that this practice ends. Insist that your public servants do not participate in this scam.
Sean Keenan, North Canton
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