Good News! Judge Belz's Injunction and Rahm is all ears.
GOOD NEWS...Circuit Judge John Belz has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the implementation of the new state pension-robbing law, SB-1.
No surprise here. Everyone who cynically pushed the bill, including Madigan & Cullerton --not to mention Quinn who signed it into law -- knew it was unconstitutional from the get-go. Judge Belz's injunction just means that the final court decision won't be as costly and destructive as it might have been.
The decision takes the pension issue off the table, at least until after the elections. But it also allows pols to dodge the revenue issue -- taxing the state's free-loading mega-corporations, Mercantile Exchange transactions, and/or implementing a fair and reasonable state income tax to support public works and pay the state's pension bills.
LOOK, IT'S THE NEW RAHM...Blaine Principal Troy LaRaviere and all the Rahm-dissing principals who've Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Good News! Judge Belz's Injunction and Rahm is all ears.:
“I do think it has led to great confusion … almost across-the-board confusion,” Belz said in a Sangamon County courtroom as he issued a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction blocking implementation of the law until further action of the court or resolution of the case. “There’s just too much uncertainty.”
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| Cullerton (left) knew SB-1 was unconstitutional, calling his bill, SB2404, "less unconstitutional." |
The decision takes the pension issue off the table, at least until after the elections. But it also allows pols to dodge the revenue issue -- taxing the state's free-loading mega-corporations, Mercantile Exchange transactions, and/or implementing a fair and reasonable state income tax to support public works and pay the state's pension bills.
