Posted on 12/04/2017 1:40:22 PM PST by AT7Saluki
...This model is the iron alliance of the Democratic Party and government workers’ unions. Madigan supports Pritzker, who is committed to the alliance. This is the state of the state under it:
Unfunded state and local government retirement debt is more than $260 billion and rising. Unfunded pension liabilities for the nation’s highest-paid government workers (overtime starts at 37.5 hours) are $130 billion and are projected to increase for at least through the next decade. Nearly 25 percent of the state’s general funds go to retirees (many living in Texas and Florida). Vendors are owed $9.5 billion. Every five minutes the population — down 1.22 million in 16 years — declines as another person, and an average of $30,000 more in taxable income, flees the nation’s highest combined state and local taxes. Those leaving are earning $19,600 more than those moving in. The work force has shrunk by 97,000 this year. There has not been an honestly balanced budget — a constitutional requirement — since 2001. The latest tax increase, forced by the legislature to end a two-year budget impasse, will raise more than $4 billion, but another $1.7 billion deficit has already appeared.
The one Democrat who did not vote for Madigan for speaker this year says he’s since been bullied. Another Democratic legislator — an African American from Chicago’s South Side, a supporter of school choice — broke ranks to give Rauner a victory on legislation requiring arbitration of an impasse with a 30,000-member union. Madigan enlisted President Barack Obama to campaign against the heretic, who was purged.
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The one Democrat who did not vote for Madigan for speaker this year says he’s since been bullied.
Corruption in Illinois ? I’m shocked.
BTW, Rauner deserves to be defeated... by an actual Republican.
Yikes. I’m grateful for leaving MI in the 1970s, a state that was headed for a similar end.
The Twitter version is filled with snarky comments by George Will's fellow Democretins, because they don't accept him either. Thanks AT7Saluki.
“...he’s since been bullied...”
In the swamp of illinois this often means serious physical injury.
me too, probably. The only good thing is we don’t get taxed on retirement income.
That will probably change and we’ll be gone.
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