Nope, it doesn't, but I also think public transit should be 100% public operated. There still wouldn't be a "blank check" any way you did it.

Ask most US employers from 1945 - 1980. Most jobs had pensions until voodoo economics and boomer greed took over everywhere. Fucking Reagan made sure all that stopped when he signed a couple of nasty laws that have been screwing us ever since.

As far as "but what after 25 years"... I don't give a damn. You work to live, not live to work. They can go find someone else to take over. You've put in more than enough.

Every state job pays out a pension, and some of them are 75%-80%. Like the police.