John Kass: Taxpayers and the Chicago teachers’ contract, a tale of two cities – Chicago Tribune

People don’t always connect the dots between the contracts that have to be negotiated for teachers, police, and fire, and their property tax bills says Ted Dabrowski. “But their tax bills keep going up. People are leaving. And you’re not actually helping teachers, police and fire if we’re heading toward bankruptcy. Rather than helping the system, we’re making it more top-heavy, and it will collapse on itself.”
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Tom Paine's Ghost
6 years ago

John Kass is spot on. There are two kinds of Illinois citizens. The first kind are Illinois Democrat politicians and the public sector unions that fund them in exchange for grossly above-market wages and gold plated pensions. The second kind are the chumbolone taxpayers who the criminal politicians and their criminal co-conspirator public sector union members are trying to stick with the invoice. Fortunately, Chicago and Illinois will eventually run out of money. The numbers are inexorable. When that happens the criminal public sector unions and their criminal con-conspirator members (and face it, that’s what they are) will be left… Read more »

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