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User Info Illinois Pension Battle Heatin' Up! Let My People GO! ; entered at 2012-05-30 13:11:48
2dogs
Posts: 2941
Registered: 2009-03-25 Land of the Lost
Trades50 wrote..
...the state is just passing the buck. Once shifted to the municipalities they will just keep raising local taxes (sales/property). There is no hope for Illinois.
No doubt it will implode. The promised pension benefits simply cannot be paid no matter where the buck is passed and which taxes are raised.

You're absolutely correct... There is no hope for Illinois.

2012-05-30 13:11:48