Ted joined Tom Miller to talk about why Illinois lawmakers don’t deserve their $100,000 salaries, why Illinois pensions are such an impossible-to-solve issue, the tax hikes that are coming due to Chicago’s billion-dollar deficits, the state’s big debts and big population losses, the SAFE-T Act’s failures, and much more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Why do we pay nearly $100K in salary for each Illinois lawmaker?
- This one graphic explains why Illinois is such a financial mess
- Broken Chicago public safety pension math: Just $6 B in assets for $68 B in payouts
- Illinois’ disastrous demographics: Fewer youth, a drop in working-age residents and a jump in elderly
- The toxic combination of Illinois’ sanctuary status and the SAFE-T Act
Audio and summary 
If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Thank you for shedding light on why there needs to be a “cleaning house” on Demo. legislators/govt. leaders who put Party power above representing/advocating for all sectors of IL.
Lets face it , till the people of Illinois stand up and vote these clowns out nothing will get done. First step make this state Red
A quick look at adjoining states tells us that IL is “ treading water “ about as well as the Titanic did on its maiden voyage.