Chris Christie's Attempt to Screw His Successor, New Jersey

This is going on right now, in the quiet of budget season:

Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson heard oral arguments on Thursday, January 15th, 2015, to consider the legality of Gov. Chris Christie’s decision to cut the pension payment in this year’s budget.

Days before the end of the last fiscal year, Judge Jacobson ruled that the state’s revenue shortfall resulted in a fiscal emergency. She allowed the governor to cut the payment by nearly $900 million. However, Judge Jacobson also found that without a fiscal emergency, workers would be contractually entitled to the full pension payment under the 2011 reform law.

Lawyers representing all public-sector workers returned to court to fight for the payment Gov. Christie has vowed not to make in the current budget.

Let's be clear here, retirees pay for their own benefits, and receive that money, plus the interest in return. Christie asked for reforms after being elected, and he got them. Now he's still refusing to pay in his share of the bill. He's going to drag things out in court long enough to leave the problem to his successor, who will have to make the payments then. Does he care? No. That's obvious. New Jersey be damned at this point, Governor Soprano wants to be President, so he'll forego payments to avoid a tax increase.