Taxpayer Education Foundation Blog
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It’s a Spending Problem in Rock Island County
View as PDF Rock Island, IL – Taxpayers United of America (TUA) has released its most recent government pension study exposing individual pensions for Rock Island municipal, Moline Municipal, East Moline Municipal, Rock Island County,...
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Killer Taxes Choke the Life Out of Will County
View as PDF Chicago, IL – Taxpayers United of America (TUA) has released its most recent government pension study exposing individual pensions for Joliet municipal, Will County, Will County government schools, and Joliet Junior College...
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Illinois’ Top 200 Government Pensions: The New Millionaire’s Row
View Release as PDF CHICAGO—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of their updated study of the top pensioners of Illinois state pension funds, including SURS, TRS, IMRF, and GARS. “Illinois leaders,...
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Government Pensions Drive Peoria Property Taxes Through the Roof
View as PDF PEORIA—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study of the pensioners of Peoria municipal and county government, Peoria County government schools, and Illinois Central College....
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Rockford & Winnebago County Taxpayers Crushed by Gov. Pension Debt
ROCKFORD—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study of the pensioners of Rockford Municipal government, Winnebago County government, Winnebago government teachers, and Rock Valley College.
“Illinois leaders, Gov. Patrick Quinn (D), Michael Madigan (D), and John Cullerton (D), continue to fail in their duty to taxpayers in Rockford and Winnebago County,” stated Jim Tobin, president of TUA.
Retired CCSD Employees Receive Huge Pensions
View as PDF View Pension Grids The Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF) has launched an investigation of Cambria Community Services District’s (CCSD) retired government-employee pension promises. The report found that over a third of currently...
RED LINE EXPANSION A FINANCIAL DISASTER IN THE MAKING
By Dennis Constant CHICAGO—The president of Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF) today denounced the plans of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) to spend $2.3 billion on extending the Red Line from 95th Street to 130th...
FINANCES PUT CHICAGO IN “WORST FIVE SINKHOLE CITIES”
CHICAGO—Chicago’s finances are in such desperate shape that the city is among the worst five “sinkhole cities” out of 75 cities, according to an article appearing in the noted political newsletter, Wirepoints, by Mike...
Book review: Autumn Of The Black Snake
View as PDF By Dennis Constant Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. – H. L. Mencken...
ILLINOIS FINANCES FAR WORSE THAN REPRESENTED
View as PDF The financial condition of Illinois is far, far worse than represented in the media, according to Mark Glennon, founder of the newsletter Wirepoints, as described in his November 21, 2018 edition....
NEW STUDY BOLSTERS ARGUMENTS AGAINST TARIFFS
View as PDF CHICAGO—The non-partisan, Washington-based Tax Foundation has publicized a new study that supports the contention that tariffs are bad for productivity and output. According to the foundation, a recent study by the...
CTA Pensions Drive Taxpayers to Poorhouse
View as PDF Chicago – After months of requests and multiple communications, Chicago Transit Authority’s (CTA) pension fund Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) officer has finally completed a lawfully submitted FOIA request by Taxpayer...
Millionaire Teachers: TRS Full Release Part 1
Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF) has released its report on Illinois Government Pensions, which revealed that despite a booming stock market, the six largest Illinois pension funds owe $141,481,548,163 that the funds do not have....
12th Annual Illinois Pension Report
View as PDF Report Overview Retired Government Employees Receiving $100,000+ Annually Chicago – Taxpayer Education Foundation (TEF) today released its 12th annual report on the Illinois statewide government pension systems. Every year, TEF analyses...
CHICAGO TRIBUNE CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHY CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS HAVE LOST POPULATION – BUT WE CAN
View as PDF CHICAGO—A recent Chicago Tribune article called attention to Chicago’s having lost 3,825 residents last year and 4,879 residents in 2016, and to the fact that Chicago metropolitan area lost residents for...