Who would be responsible for unfunded public sector pension liabilities built up prior to independence?
Accordingly, a 3.2% growth rate would make our current debt and unfunded liabilities financially insignificant.
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He also notes that their liabilities for other post-retirement benefit (OPEB) obligations are largely unfunded.
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The costs of such unfunded mandates might drive some small businesses out of existence.
Just ask the nation's governors what federally mandated unfunded programs have done to their financial status.
Add in unfunded health care promises and the figure is closer to double that.
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Even more important, they leave out the government's generous unfunded pension arrangements for public-sector workers.
Yet, these initiatives are going unfunded, as are necessary investments in spares and logistics.
These real-world impacts will be felt when currently unfunded liabilities need to be paid.
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Once that happens, social security will become another unfunded entitlement that we cannot afford.
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That benefit alone now represents a substantially larger unfunded liability over time than Social Security does.
Some of the latter must remain unfunded so we can live within our means.
There are tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities in our future, which must be dealt with.
The federal government owes several trillion dollars in unfunded pension payments for its own workers.
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The 20-page report said that state pension payments were made from general taxation and were therefore unfunded.
The states are also bleeding money and have large debts, including giant gaps in unfunded pension liabilities.
Across the country, state and local governments are facing huge unfunded liabilities for their employee pension plans.
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The general debate about public pensions, the source of unfunded liabilities that weigh Chicago down, is messy.
The unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are in the tens of trillions of dollars.
Beyond the current debt are the unfunded liabilities for entitlement programs that come due in the future.
Unless the flood insurance program is significantly reformed, the unfunded burden will predictably grow larger over time.
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One of the largest issues threatening to push states into the fiscal abyss is unfunded pension liability.
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What is certain, however, is that America, along with other rich countries, does have large unfunded liabilities.
Drilling into the data, Cheung highlighted the risks of over-leveraged local governments, unfunded pension plans and shadow banking.
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"We paid out the people who were entitled to benefits under the old unfunded plan, " Mr. McLean says.
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Many Republicans are saying that relief from unfunded state mandates should also be part of the legislative package.
Added to this is the retirement of government employed baby boomers, whose pension liabilities have gone mostly unfunded.
The FAO and OIE have for some time had a largely unfunded global strategy for fighting avian flu.
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If governments' accounts included future liabilities such as unfunded pension obligations, most budgets would still be in deficit.
The unfunded trillion dollar deal is a big step in the wrong direction.
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