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CHICAGO — A list released by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) of the Top 100 pensions of retired Chicago Public School teachers shows that many of these retired teachers have already collected huge amounts of cash compared with their relatively small employee contributions, according to the President of TUA.
“A small pension contribution of $126,000 mushroomed into millions of dollars for one retiree, and the payout is still growing at taxpayer expense,” said Jim Tobin, TUA President.
“In Chicago, property taxes pay for both public school salaries and generous pensions. The biggest portion of homeowners’ property tax bills is for public schools, and 80% of these property tax dollars goes for salaries and pensions.”
“Manford Byrd, who has contributed only $126,561 to his retirement plan, already has collected an estimated total pension payout of $2,580,793.”
“Robert Saddler, who has contributed only $108,335 to his retirement plan, already has collected an estimated total pension payout of $2,063,207.”
“The broken pension system must be reformed. Ending pensions for all new government hires will eventually eliminate unfunded government pensions; putting new government hires into social security and 401(k)s would achieve this.”
“One possible solution to this problem is to require each government employee in the Chicago teachers pension fund to contribute an additional 10% toward his or her pension. This would provide taxpayers billions of dollars in property tax relief.”
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Chicago–The plan by the City of Chicago to install automated speed cameras in locations covering nearly half the city have nothing to do with protecting school children, but, rather, will be used to protect and bolster the lavish, gold-plated pensions of retired city government employees, according to the president of Taxpayers United of Illinois (TUA).
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“On Wednesday, the State Senate approved this expansion of cameras in Chicago by a 32-24 vote, and now the legislation goes to the State House,” said Jim Tobin, TUA President. “Senate President John Cullerton (D-6, Chicago) helped his Democratic buddy, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D), by pushing this legislation through the Senate, and now Chicago Machine Boss and House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-22, Chicago) will attempt to shepherd SB965 through the Illinois House.”
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“This expansion of speed cameras has nothing to do with protecting school children,” said Tobin. “If the purpose were school safety, then the automatic speed cameras would be limited to school speed zones and cover no more than 10 percent of city streets. This is a blatant, cynical attempt to pour millions of dollars into city coffers at the expense of Chicago drivers to benefit greedy bureaucrats and city employees.”
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“I urge Chicago Taxpayers to contact their State Representatives and urge them to vote against SB965 passed by the Illinois Senate.”
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DECATUR–A new report by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that many government school employees and retirees of Macon County, Illinois 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 Jim Tobin, TUA President. “Springfield House and Senate Democrats just temporarily raised the state personal income tax 67%, all $6.4 billion taxpayer dollars of which is being used to fund the state’s lavish retired government employee pension programs.” Read more →
