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I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous. My entire working life, I’ve only ever heard of pensions — kind of like how I’ve heard of unicorns. And medical benefits? Sure I get ’em, but I, and my co-workers, pay an ever-increasing percentage to keep ’em (and we’re lucky for that, I might add). So, although I know that Kern County department heads and managers work hard and have huge responsibilities, I almost spit Diet Pepsi through my nose when I saw how much taxpayers are kicking in for their benefits and perks. We’re paying a little more than a third of their salaries — 33.48 percent — into retirement alone. (Based on a yearly actuarial review, that amount was bumped up from 30 percent a few weeks ago even as the Board of Supervisors was pressing for more painful cuts to public services. Sheesh!) For Public Defender Mark Arnold, that works out to $73,200.63 a year of taxpayer money chucked into his “gone...
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