Note to Kentucky: Top Bowling Green Government Pension Estimates Released

By on January 11, 2012   /   Kentucky, Latest, News Releases, Pension Reform  

CHICAGO–A report released today by Taxpayers United of America (TUA) reveals that Bowling Green and Warren County government employees are not only receiving generous salaries, but that over a normal lifetime, many of these government employees, when they retire, will become pension millionaires. Kentucky bureaucrats refuse to release pension figures, so total pension payouts were estimated* for this report.
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“Warren County taxpayers struggle through this recession with an average wage of $35,000, a median home value of $133,100, and 7.8% unemployment, government employees really rake it in while they are employed and then when retired,” said Christina Tobin, TUA Vice President. (Read more…) →

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Taxpayers United of America on CLTV Friday December 30!

By on December 29, 2011   /   News Releases  

CHICAGO–Taxpayers United of America (TUA) will appear on CLTV’s ‘Politics Tonight’, Friday December 30 at 6:00 CST. Host Paul Lisnek will interview Andrew Spiegel, noted legal counsel representing TUA in a lawsuit against the Illinois Tollway, along with Rae Ann McNeilly, TUA Director of Outreach, and one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
TUA filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Tollway Authority in an effort to stop the egregious 90% toll increase.  Judge Rita Novak dismissed the case in her ruling on a motion filed by Attorney General Lisa Madigan who is defending this alleged illegal toll tax increase.
“This toll tax increase has nothing to do with improvements and maintenance of existing tollways and has everything to do with expanding and perpetuating the bloated bureaucracy known as the Illinois Tollway Authority,” said McNeilly. “Conventional wisdom supports tollways as a direct tax, but in Illinois, the administration of the tollway has become a cesspool of cronyism and provides high paying jobs and pensions for the friends and family of Illinois bureaucrats as well as lucrative contracts for unions who support the politicians that make the tollway leadership’s appointments.”
“Lisa Madigan is fighting us with an army of lawyers. Six taxpayer-funded staffers showed up at the December 20th hearing. She must really have been worried that taxpayers might win.”
“We will continue this fight on behalf of millions of taxpayers.  We will either appeal this ruling or file an amended complaint. This kind of ‘Chicago Politicking’ is sucking taxpayers dry and we are prepared to fight.”
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Spit on the Law

By on December 21, 2011   /   IL Toll Tax, Latest, News Releases  

Click here to view as a PDF                         Click here to view $100,000-plus salaries each year from tolls
CHICAGO–Taxpayers United of America (TUA) President Jim Tobin called Tuesday’s hearing of his lawsuit against the Illinois Tollway Authority a “spectacle,” and labeled Judge Rita Novak’s decision yesterday rejecting an attempt to block the 90% percent tollway tax hike scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1 a “callous, politically-driven decision.”
“Novak essentially gave tollway customers, as well as the law, no consideration,” said Tobin.
Novak dismissed a lawsuit challenging the tollway’s authority to raise tolls.
“The hearing was a spectacle,” said Tobin. “Tollway users were represented by noted attorney Andrew Spiegel, and State Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) must have been worried, because she had six — that’s right — six of her taxpayer paid staff there to represent the Tollway Authority.”
Attorney General Lisa Madigan is the daughter of powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan (D-22, Chicago). (Read more…) →

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