And under the Illinois Constitution these obscene people levels can never be touched.
Until there’s no more money, anyway.
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It’s good to feed at the government trough.
New idea.
Pensioners only get the percentage of their pension that the current batch of kids reading at their grade level is.
So for example, this year they’d only get 31% of what they’d normally get. If they get $100,000 a year, they’d only be able to get $31,000.
#1 Accounting rule = Never maintain an expense.
If you work for government, then you are the enemy.
I do think I detect some envy here.
Sad to say but $100,000 per year in Illinois isn’t a lot of money.
I hope they are in Florida spending it happily here. We have an awesome state where that revenue is welcome. Lol.
Why don’t they just raise taxes?
DemocRATS love handing out other people’s money. I’ve been listening to Rush podcasts ever since he passed away. After Obama was selected, there was, during November and December 2008, so much talk of spending and saving the auto companies. Turns out that at the end of 2008, there were 700,000 auto union retirees. 700,000 people getting paid every month, but not making any product. I am not stating that they should not be paid, but the corporate people that made this arrangement do not plan very well. Not only were there 700,000 retirees, the auto workers union contract allowed for many ‘workers’ to decline a productive shift and still get paid for the day. If a factory did not have enough work, the auto companies offered workers a shift in another factory. HOWEVER, the worker had the ‘right’ to decline that offer, and they still received the same pay for that day, even though they did not produce anything. Workers could reject work, still get paid.