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Monday, January 7, 2013

Deadbeat Illinois. « Fred Klonsky

Deadbeat Illinois. « Fred Klonsky:


Deadbeat Illinois.

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Long-term care Medicaid patients will soon be turned away. They will die as a result. Photo: Springfield Journal Register.
As a Illinois House committee votes on the Nekritz pension bomb today, keep making those phone calls.
But in the mean time, let us momentarily set the pension issue aside but continue the discussion of why this is a revenue problem,  not a pension problem.
Illinois is rich, but the state government is broke.
It is the result of the fact that Illinois is among the lowest taxing states and lowest spending