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From the men who gave us the pension killer SB512, tax breaks for firing workers. « Fred Klonsky

From the men who gave us the pension killer SB512, tax breaks for firing workers. « Fred Klonsky:


From the men who gave us the pension killer SB512, tax breaks for firing workers.


Tom Cross is the Illinois House GOP leader.
Ty Fahner is the head of the Civic Committee. He represents corporate public policy issues in Illinois. The two of them tagged teamed with Democratic Speaker Mike Madigan to try to pass the pension killing bill SB512 this past session. They failed.
Then came the massive tax breaks for the CME group, which runs the Chicago Board of Trade and the