‘Potomac Pipe Dreams’

In your editorial on “Potomac Pipe Dreams,” you state that “billions could be saved by shaving federal pension plans to put them more in line with private pension plans.” Comparing these two radically different types of plans is like comparing apples and kangaroos.

In order to make them reasonably comparable, the government would have to stop deducting the 7% retirement contributions from federal employees’ paychecks. This would cost the government more billions than would be saved under your proposal.

EDWIN A. KORKLIN

Laguna Hills