PS Since when did wages become a 'perk' of a job. Pension payments are a contractual right and are an integral part of an overall salary package. People who have worked for years in the public service with for what they understood to be the 'package' should get what they have earned.

Hands up how many of you would like to volunteer to give up 4% of your salary for what is alleged to be the 'common good' when the rich still are disproportionately unaffected by all of this.