Interest on Illinois’ pension debt is $9.1B per year
Illinois isn’t covering the interest payments on its pension debt. Those interest payments total $9.1 billion a year.
From Illinois policy March 2017
A golden rule of finance is this: Debt that can’t...
FUZZY MATH
The “Tax the Rich” Delusion of the Democratic Left
Ever hear anyone on the left spell out exactly how they're going to pay for Medicare for All, free college, and all the rest? Didn't think so.
By Brian Riedl
The Democrats’...
Chicagoan Don Wojtowicz worked for nearly 50 years in public service in hopes of a decent retirement. But for Don and more than 2 million retirement-age Illinoisans like him, a progressive income...
Homer Township demands return of some road district equipment, property from village
Published by steveba2103 on August 18, 2021
By MICHELLE MULLINSDAILY SOUTHTOWN |AUG 10, 2021 AT 10:37 AM
The Illinois GOP Congressional Caucus Responds to HB 40
Written By Laurie Higgins
Great news from the congressional front!
In light of the possibility that Governor Bruce Rauner may renege on his commitment to veto HB 40—the bill that would require taxpayer-funding of abortions through Medicaid...
ILLINOIS NEWS NETWORK
Illinois lawmakers agreed to almost a dozen new pension laws this year. But none of them will address the state's biggest pension problem: The costs.
Of the ten new pension laws that lawmakers agreed to, just three deal...
By Steve Balich January 2016
Last March we the people got enough signatures to put a Referendum on the Ballot telling local Boards wholly or partially within Homer Township we the taxpayers want local taxing bodies to ask the people...
Illinois Review
For Immediate Release
Date: May 31, 2019
Contact:
Terry Horstman
217.557.9671
Sam Salustro
312.550.1582
2019 Will County Tentative Multiplier Announced
SPRINGFIELD, IL, Will County has been issued a tentative property assessment equalization factor of 1.0000, according to David Harris, Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue.
The...
Under Illinois’ new education funding formula, the wildly mismanaged Chicago school district won’t lose a dime in state funding, no matter how many students it loses.
Illinois’ new education funding formula signed into law in August gave the Chicago Public...
Dr. Eric Wallace wants to return morality to the world of Illinois politics. Read more..
