Illinois among 20 states dragging down U.S. economic recovery – Illinois Policy

Rising public pensions costs hurt states such as Connecticut, Illinois and New Jersey. While the federal bailouts helped most states’ finances recover quickly, these states were less able to prevent business failures, to provide additional tax breaks for cash-strapped businesses, or to avoid massive cuts in state and local government payrolls.
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The Railroader
4 years ago

The policies pursued by the ever corpulent JB the Hutt are to the economy what a boat anchor is to an Olympic swimmer.

All the DNC has to offer is woke politics and Covid itself.

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Bill
4 years ago

No surprise here. The State of Intoxication has been doing its best to undermine America in every way that it can for years.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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