Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
In Libland, there is no pension crisis, so the ZeroHedge piece would make no sense. I remember an instance when I pointed out a $4 billion unfunded pension liability on a school district balance sheet to a teacher and her response was–no, there is no pension problem. Millenials accuse Katy Perry of killing a nun but they can’t see the connection between pensions and crumbling classrooms.