Faxed To Springfield
Round up your colleagues and drag them to the phones.
This is the message I just faxed to my senator:
This is the message I just faxed to my senator:
November 8, 2011Dear Sentaor Steans,I hope you are as alarmed as I am by the report from Buck Consultants regarding the impact of SB512. It describes the linkage of the state’s contribution to state revenue as “actuarially unsound.”There’s a reason that no other pension system links the state’s contribution to revenue: it’s a terrible idea. It actually codifies the practice of underfunding the pension systems and would set them on a course of certain extinction.We can’t have a pension system in which one of the funding legs decides its policies on an ad hoc basis; it is the mark of a banana republic.Please vote “NO!” on SB 512. It’s a terrible bill, written with ill intent.Tim Furman,Rogers Park