WINNETKA–A new report by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that many government school employees and retirees of New Trier High School receive lavish, gold-plated salaries and pensions that far exceed average annual wages of workers in the private sector.
“These outrageous government-employee pensions are bankrupting the state,” said Christina Tobin, TUA Vice-President. “Springfield House and Senate Democrats just temporarily raised the state personal income tax 67%, all $6.8 billion taxpayer dollars of which is being used to fund the state’s lavish retired government employee pension programs.” Read more →
The heads of two leading organizations promoting alternatives to the drug war today called upon the U.S. Congress to defund and halt the failed 40-year-old “War on Drugs.” A major taxpayer organization was praised for pointing out the enormous waste of taxpayer dollars that flow into the pockets of bureaucrats who make their living fighting this so-called “war.”
“The war on drugs has cost taxpayers more than a trillion dollars and yet drugs are still readily available and in most cases cheaper and more potent than 40 years ago,” said Bill Piper, Director of National Affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the nation’s leading organization promoting alternatives to the drug war. Read more →
CHICAGO–Yesterday, the Wilmette School District 39 Board successfully objected to a move by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) which would have saved the taxpayers thousands of dollars.
TUA had moved to consolidate two of the referendum cases it has filed so they could be heard as one case. The lawsuits involve both Wilmette School District 39 and Oak Park School District 97. Attorneys for both Boards objected to the consolidation.
In a hearing yesterday before Judge Moshe Jacobious at the Richard J. Daley Center, TUA argued that consolidation was in the interest of judicial economy and should be consolidated in order to avoid confusion that could result from two different Judges coming to conflicting decisions in the two cases. Read more →
