Comments on: Need to Improve Government Decorum http://www.district2news.com/columns/from-the-office-of-peter-stoffer-mp/2010/01/07/need-to-improve-government-decorum/ NEWS | EVENTS | INFO Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:43:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bradford Morley Dillman http://www.district2news.com/columns/from-the-office-of-peter-stoffer-mp/2010/01/07/need-to-improve-government-decorum/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Bradford Morley Dillman Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:28:09 +0000 http://www.district2news.com/?p=876#comment-387 I like the idea of protecting employee pensions when employers go bankrupt, but wouldn't pension insurance create what Americans call a 'moral hazard', where pension plans would have incentive to abuse the insurance? How could this be avoided? Allowing increased CPP contributions, and extending CPP to the self-employed seem like good ideas. I think this might reduce the dependency of employees on employers just a little (i.e. one less thing). I like the idea of protecting employee pensions when employers go bankrupt, but wouldn’t pension insurance create what Americans call a ‘moral hazard’, where pension plans would have incentive to abuse the insurance? How could this be avoided?

Allowing increased CPP contributions, and extending CPP to the self-employed seem like good ideas. I think this might reduce the dependency of employees on employers just a little (i.e. one less thing).

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