Such a proposal makes eminent good sense. Public employees making more than $100,000 a year can generally afford to save and invest on their own. This proposal would, in addition, relieve public schools, public safety agencies and other PERS participants from having to make outsized pension contributions to the salaries of already highly-paid employees with money that might otherwise be spent on hiring additional staff or a new police cruiser.

Will the Helfrich PERS contributions come out of the UO Athletic Department, or will the university cover that incredible expense out of a general salary fund?