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by lotsofpulp 1513 days ago
Governments do this with deferred compensation schemes like defined benefit pensions and retiree healthcare. There are conveniently no laws around calculating the cost of benefits, and of course no recourse for today’s leaders not funding them in the first place, so they can hide a lot of today’s labor costs in understated pension and retiree healthcare liabilities.