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Despite cheap benefits, the state fails to fund. Whenever people write about excessively generous public pension benefits, I think of Massachusetts. Massachusetts stands out among state-administered plans as being one of the cheapest. Two factors explain why it is so cheap. First, public employees in Massachusetts are not covered by Social Security, which means t…