Local governments that haven't put sufficient resources into a pension trust to pay for future pension benefits should stop calculating their pension obligations as if they had.
That's the feeling of David Walker of the Comeback America Initiative.
On the website Politico.com, Walker says that the Governmental Accounting Standards Board wants state and local governments throughout the country to clearly show all their pension liabilities on financial statements, something that's not currently a legal requirement.
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