Category: Budget & Spending
Budget and Spending
Governor Quinn offered few concrete problems on how to solve our state's problems.
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With some help from the good folks the Illinois Policy Institute, here are some great ideas for 2012...
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Teach for a day, get a pension. State is broke, lose pension. Madigan works to restore pension.
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Teacher's Union Lobbyists substitute taught for one day and now have access to a the teacher's defined benefit program.
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Recently, a scandal has come to light about the misuse of taxpayer dollars involving some of Chicago’s political bosses and their allies running local unions.
In the 1990’s Chicago officials and their allies in the legislature cooked up a little bonanza for their political backers who ran the slew of unions that staffed city departments. If you took a leave from your city job, say, pushing a broom at city hall, after three or four years, to become an official with Local 10 of the International Brotherhood of Broom Pushers, you could still rack up credit towards your city pension. Not only that, but when you retired, your pension would be tied, not to your $15 per hour broom pusher salary, but your union boss salary, which often topped out over $200,000 per year.
So the people of Chicago ended up paying some union bosses nearly $160,000 a year in pension for a few years of actual city work where they earned sometimes less than $20,000 a year—all courtesy of the taxpayers.
Within t ...
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Another reason why IL needs more pension reform.
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Rankings are an important measure to determine progress and growth for any entity. Where does Illinois want to be financially and economically? How do we get there?
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If any section, sentence, clause or part of this act, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the the remaining portions of this act.
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Since its passage in January, Senate Bill 2505 has created the largest increase in job loss in the 50 states.
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Recently, State Auditor Bill Holland’s office revealed that College Illinois! is running a deficit of $300 million—the most substantial financial shortfall of any prepaid tuition plan in the nation.
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