Government workers = Lazy bums;
the mayor, the government worker teachers, the cops, the water works workers, soup to nuts.
Where else can you put in 30 years and retire at 100/125/150+ % of your salary..
Short-coming retirees bennies??
Raise property taxes!
Home owners sell..
Property values go down.
Rinse, wash, repeat.
Illinois has one of the most egregiously bankrupting public pension schemes in the country, if not THE most bankrupting.
It is this: Say someone works for an organization that does work for the state or local government. That someone has worked for that organization for 30 years. But, he wants a sweetheart pension, at taxpayer expense. What doe she do? He serves as a substitute teacher in a public school for one day. That’s it: ONE DAY! But, because of the sweetheart deal, he gets to apply his 30 years of service with the contractor to his one-day “teaching” experience, and thus qualifies for a very lucrative teacher’s pension based on 30 years tenure. So, not only does he collect his pension from his contracting job, and social security, but also pulls in around six figures for 30 years of teaching credits! The latter wholly at taxpayer expense!