The Issue: The passage of a pension-reform bill that could save New York $80 billion over 30 years.

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The latest politics in Albany are an insult to the taxpayers (“Cuomo’s Coup,” Editorial, March 16).

What good does it do to save on future employees when it is the existing ones who are causing all our economic problems?

New York should stop hiring new employees. This is how it would be handled in the corporate world.

Brian Keane

Patchopque

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I read The Post every day. Please stay on the municipal unions, because the politicians never will. We all know how well they get taken care of by the unions.

The media are the taxpayers’ only hope for the future of New York and this country.

Dan Higgins

Floral Park

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Does anyone really believe that the pension explosion can be stopped by placing limitations solely on future government employees?

The bleeding has to be stopped now.

If government employees want the possibility of an 8 percent annual return rate, they can choose to invest their pensions in mutual funds. If they want safety, they can take the lower rates offered by government-insured funds.

Forcing taxpayers to uphold the current rate during market downturns will bankrupt the state before any of the governor’s reform savings are realized.

Carl Rosenberg

Syosset

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“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?” (Matthew, 16:26).

For what profit is it to the governor if he gains pension reform and loses every union vote in the state?

James Panzo

Brooklyn