Strapped Jersey taxpayers are spending $10.3 billion over 30 years to pay off a pension borrowing gimmick the state employed back in 1998. The growing annual burden, $300 million this year rising to $500 million annually by the end of the decade, illustrates how past gimmicks haunt state and local finances today.
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