Illinoisans struggle with inflation while lawmakers raise their own salaries 33% – Wirepoints on WLS’ Ramblin Ray Show

Ted joined the Ray Stevens show to talk about Illinois lawmakers giving themselves a 33% raise over the last few years.  They’re paying themselves well for constant failure. Illinois is the 4th-worst in the country for economic growth and 6th-worst in unemployment…among other dismal economic metrics.

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Old Joe
1 year ago

Some animals are more equal than others……

cynthia
1 year ago

Been saying…. dems and rino’s don’t care about the people…..just themselves………we need a lot of MAGA in this state!!

Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

“ Thanks, suckers! Keep voting for us as we line our pockets under the guise of serving you!”.

Old Spartan
1 year ago

Even by Illinois standards, these numbers are quite amazing. And don’t forget the pension implications of this escalation. And of course, not a peep from the press, any fiscal watch dogs or civic associations. If Wirepoints didn’t print this, no one would ever hear about it.

Fed up neighbor
1 year ago

Every time there is a election for Governor there should be a referendum on the ballot to allow the hardworking taxpayers of Illinois to decide whether the Springfield crooks deserve a pay raise.

Fed up neighbor
1 year ago

Must be a politician that didn’t like my idea, who are you

Hello, Indiana!
1 year ago

It would be interesting to find out the Demtard that never speaks up to defend his demented, progressive idols, but throws a thumbs down and then scurries back to his hole.

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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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