State pensions
State salaries
Free medical
And has NOTHING left for what you think a state should spend money on:
Roads
Snow removal
Bridge building
Parks
Utilities
Safety
Crime prevention
Natural disaster help
Education
Parks
Museums
Business compliance
Environmental enforcement
etc.
A democrat utopia.
Lord help you if you own a house or business there.
The insurmountable problem redistributionists face is that everything they wish to redistribute is produced by capitalism, which they hate and want to destroy.
When they finally succeed in destroying capitalism, they are dumbfounded when they immediately run out of things to redistribute.
No federal bailouts of Democrat run insane asylums.
Not Illinois, not California, not New York, not Puerto Rico.
CALIFORNIA! Just like Illinois but with more people!
Illinois is a perfect example of State controlled for decades by a Corrupt Democrat Machine.
I think the only Republican to hold office in the entire state of Illinois is the governor. So this is probably his fault.
Coming soon to Connecticut thanks to our village idiot also called governor.
Excellent post, but you left out the State Childhood Indoctrination System in your first list.
But the state spends money on all that other stuff, plus more you didn’t mention (like welfare). Because they can - states have an unlimited piggy-bank. They don’t have piece of paper called a budget, is all, which put some constraints on things they can spend on and when, i.e. road construction is coming to an end soon if a budget isn’t passed.
Mere technicalities to Mike Madigan and John Cullerson.
Is this the real reason that Zero didn’t move back to his home State, and Chicago???
I never did believe the story about his daughter’s school, but I do believe the story of him living where he does to ‘ghost run the secret government’...
With that many deaths on a weekend, they are only over done by Baltimore, Maryland now...wonder if Maryland will go this way soon???
psssst. Illinois doesn’t tax retirement income.
If they troll this thread, they soon will.
In 1837, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and Louisiana defaulted on their debt around the same time. Several, including Michigan, repudiated – or failed to pay back – at least a portion of their debt.
The states that defaulted or repudiated, like Michigan, ended up imposing strict constitutional amendments to limit the amount of debt they could issue. Michigan ended up banning any pledge of its credit to a private corporation seeking to borrow under its aegis and also outlawed the purchase by the state of any private company’s stock – practices that had previously been common among U.S. states.
As a result, Michigan’s bonds ended up trading at higher prices in the 1860s, after European investors returned to the U.S. bond market, than those of states that didn’t impose such limits.
Just raise taxes, and build a wall to prevent people from leaving.
Boeing should have moved to Texas, rather than Chicagoland.
The people in Illinois have had decades to solve their spending problems, but year after year they elected to continue to spend with the hope the Feds would bail them out.
The Illinois voters could demand the government at all levels be privatized and that would seem to fix their problems.
So long as the workers are government employees, the state laws protect them.
Maybe they can borrow some money from Puerto Rico.
BTTT
Well it’s a good thing they have a state lottery to fund the wonderful schools. As any state lottery has been touted so that it would be approved.
This is bad. If I own one of the professional sports teams in Chicago I would consider leaving.
Cannot the state buy a Powerball, Mega Millions lottery tickets and use the winnings to pay off the debt?
Oh wait...
Powerball, Mega Millions to drop Illinois due to state’s budget crisis
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/powerball-mega-millions-to-drop-illinois-due-to-states-budget-crisis/