[nascarnation]

Once fully phased in, the new tax would produce an estimated $239 million a year to help reduce the $18.6 billion the city owes the municipal workers' fund

Hey only 78 years to make up the shortfall!

Nice job Rhambo!

[Vince Ferrer]

Hey only 78 years to make up the shortfall!

So the actual plan would be to have the pensioners die off before they get paid.

[boop]

LOL!

And there's an Illinois constitutional amendment that guarantees full union pension funding to boot.

Good thing that we have judges in black robes who will overturn such amendments the taxpayers don't like...

Oh, what am I saying?

Only constitutional amendments that the PEOPLE voted on, those are OK to overturn.

If it's a "public" UNION, there is absolutely no way to get around it, as nobody has "standing".

[dp0622]

ROFL!! I’ll be 126 and not NEARLY as interested in politics as I am now :)