A republication of our Wirepoints article.

By Tim Schneider, IL Republican Party Chairman.

“For every one person of working age, you’ll have one person who’s either too young to work or too old to work,” Harger said. “You’ll have the dependent populations who can’t contribute very much into the system and at the same time the burden for paying for it is falling on a shrinking group of working-age people.”

Over 27% of your cellphone bill is tax, according to the Tax Foundation report.

Residential property tax collections have grown three times faster than incomes in Illinois since 2000. The Wirepoints report with background research is linked here.

Comment: This will require a pension obligation bond — borrowing: “You can grow your way, as a state and as an economy, if you can flatten out the payments.” he said.