Tuesday, April 22, 2014

4-22-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:







Ten minute drawing. Top chef.




The Sun-Times’ call to “fix the error” misses the point.
The Sun-Times is without shame. This morning they ran an editorial that calls on the legislators to “fix the error” in Senate Bill 1. Back in November SB1 was the bill they demanded. The state’s top legislative leaders reached a deal Wednesday to cut pension costs for teachers, state and university workers and legislators. State lawmakers should ratify that agreement when they return to Springfiel

John Dillon. Poor Representative Mike Bost.
. - John Dillon blogs at Pension Vocabulary. Let’s not forget just a year ago, Madigan was the chief architect of an unconstitutional pension bill that was later given after initial failure to a group of ten willing to forgo their oaths of office to patch and paste together an avoidance of responsibility to find real answers and another way to punish the workers. Poor Rep. Bost must have actually
Illinois General Assembly eats shoots and leaves. More about the pension typo.
State Senator Iris Martinez. Because Senator Dan Biss misplaced a decimal point, the line to retire at the University of Illinois is long. Jim Broadway of the Illinois School News Service has lifted his copyright for the day, so I’ll post his comments on Senate Bill 1 in full. Haste makes costly pension glitch: The hastily drafted (and seriously unconstitutional) pension “reform” bill that the le
4-21-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: These members of the $20 million a year club paid the same Illinois state income tax rate as you did.Because Illinois is a regressive flat tax state we all pay the same tax rate no matter how much we got paid. Today Crain’s published their list of twenty CEO’s who made $20 million this year. They paid