View as PDF CHICAGO – Last Friday, April 1, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) orchestrated a mass, one-day pseudo-strike in conjunction with other likeminded activists and unions. Together, they aired a litany of grievances...
View as PDF CHICAGO – Presidents Day is a fake holiday. In fact, the holiday is still officially known as Washington’s Birthday, and although it can be argued whether or not it ever served...
CHICAGO – Illinois is in the midst of its fifth month without a state budget and the financial situation is becoming increasingly dire by the day, so taxpayers are rightly outraged by the state government’s mismanagement of their hard-earned tax dollars. But if the ongoing budget issues haven’t infuriated the taxpayers of Illinois, then a new report by the Institute for Justice, Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture, should certainly grab their attention…
By: Forrest Jehlik View as PDF CHICAGO – Chicago taxpayers may once again face teams of teachers with strike signs and bullhorns demanding more benefits for the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). CTU President, Karen...
So why should taxpayers listen to his solutions? View as PDF CHICAGO—As Illinois approaches its fifth month without a state budget, former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar (R) has once again entered the political conversation,...
View as PDF CHICAGO—While those in the private sector are struggling to pay their bills and keep their jobs, federal government employees have become the aristocracy of the labor market, according to Jim Tobin,...
View as PDF CHICAGO—The State of Illinois has become an economic disaster-area just like the country of Greece, according to Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayer Education Foundation, and for the same reasons. We can...
News coverage for June 15th, 2015 – including a plea to not raise gas taxes; bankruptcy and the Illiana; Gov. Rauner vs. downstate and suburban Dems; consequences of no IL budget; ready your swimsuit for the pension tidal wave; lies about Snowden; the cost of militarism on the outskirts of the American Empire.
News coverage for June 11th, 2015 – including continuing Illinois budget squabbling, municipal bankruptcy, government pension problems, government road rodeo, New England tax policy emulating the Midwest, War Socialism, and Judge Napolitano on the Surveillance State.
News coverage for June 10th, 2015 – including Rauner v. Madigan, property tax debates, suggestion of CPS bankruptcy, government pensions, the FBI’s surveillance ‘air force,’ and the failure of DC’s perpetual wars.
