Strum a guitar on a street corner and pass the hat?
This isn’t really a problem in any way.
They will get honest jobs, as they should have done decades ago.
This is just setting the stage for a federal bailout. The question is whether the federal government bites.
Simple solution. Keep raising taxes until they get enough to pay their obligations.
Illinois should pay me for such advice!
Social Security 2025. No more white privilege.
All the morons who bought into social security and government pensions as bedrock security: suckers.
They will be coming for your 401k next to patch the gaps in social security and government pensions. It’s only fair that you crackers pay up.
The State of Illinois should secede from Chicago. Chicago is the cancer ruining it, like Seattle is the cancer sickening Washington, or Denver is the disease of Colorado. New York state would be better off without the five rotten boroughs
Whatever happens, it’ll be a riot.
So there's that.
I see this as the first sign of what is to come when the burden of tens of trillions of dollars of debt. This is the real zombie apocalypse. When the welfare dollars quit coming or, worse yet, it takes the sum of all their “benefits” to cover their cellphone bill, they will come after what the people who aren’t on welfare have. The authorities (local, state, federal law enforcement) will be guarding their facilities and won’t be there to protect anyone else. Today is not the day to stop buying ammunition.
I can tell you what they SHOULD do. Pass a “zip code” test. Checks to the ghetto need to keep flowing or they will riot. Checks to “gated communities” need to cease.
Of course, they will do it just the other way around...
Note to federal income tax payers: INCOMING!!!!
I’m wondering how many of their elected politicians became millionaires while in offfice over the last 50 years?
Because that’s where the money went.
In what form do you keep the funds in your hand that you consider it beyond their grasp? Inflation is how they tax people that hold dollars.
What will pensioners do? They will dutifully blame Trump...or Bush or anyone but the ones responsible.
If you don’t roll it into a IRA there are 30% IRS penalties, ROLL IT OVER!
Uhhh, quit voting democrat?
I’m sure they’ll get some money from the Democrat party.
They have tons of money.
They just spent $30,000,000 to lose a House race in Georgia.
In times of financial difficulties, they always cut back on things that hurt the most. They never cut back on their own rich benefits. They don’t stop bringing in “refugees.” They keep the money flowing to themselves and their best buddies.
Not a legal option.
OH, and they don’t pay SS. My bride is a teacher, and that is a big concern. We don’t count on the pension, but the risk of having to pay back SS is a worry.
Funny thing is that the state constitution is such they can’t put it into a safer harbor.
The ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY passed the vilest of laws, while they shook their fists at ALMIGHTY GOD. They forgot Who holds the purse strings.
HAGGAI 2:8
‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ declares the LORD of hosts.
1 SAMUEL l 2:7
“The LORD makes poor and rich; He brings low, He also exalts.
1 CHRONICLES 29:12
“Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone.