Mismanagement of funds nothing new in Illinois – MyWebTimes

"With tongue planted firmly in cheek, I would like to announce my selection for 2019’s “Most Unintentionally Comic Article of the Year.” It’s a genuine knee-slapper. I hope you think so, too. Capitol News Illinois recently produced an article headlined, “State funding for schools would lower property taxes.” Just let that headline sink in. In the great tradition of other over-educated lightweights, Frank Manzo (policy director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute) and Robert Bruno (equally impressive as director of the Project for Middle Class Renewal, where do they get these names?) authored a commissioned report (a sure sign of redundancy) that found property taxes would be reduced if the state of Illinois agreed to pay a much larger share of education costs in Illinois communities."