Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn wants to raise your state income taxes up to 67%. He claims this is necessary to fill an $11.5 billion state budget gap. What he doesn’t say is that the state will receive $11.5 billion in federal stimulus funds, which would completely fill the gap.
Download our Stop the Income Tax Hike flyer to learn: what you won’t hear from the governor about the gold-plated pensions for local and state employees and ways you can stop government pensions from bankrupting our state.
Included on page 2 of the flyer is a list of the Illinois Top 100 Government Pension Payouts. Look for yourself to see just how lavish these government pensions are.
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So what now?
There will be no meaningful reform passed. There will be no term limits or any other changes the citizens want as long as we continue to elect the same two parties.
It is time to stop just complaining about how our elected officials, both Democrat and Republican, have screwed us. It time to do something about it. The Illinois Green Party has promoted real reform for years (ilgp.org). The ILGP recently became an established party and is the only real challenge to the R’s and D’s.
The only way to get us out of this mess is to take a stand and vote the career politicians out.
Ennema is enema, principle is principal. Evidently some people on this site don’t have the education to take part in education.
Thank you Shelly, thank you Retired Teacher, thank you Bob DiPaolo!
I’m no Pat Quinn fan and like anyone else, I don’t want higher taxes but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater here. Let’s request BETTER MANAGEMENT in government – not a forsaking of our responsibility to our public servants.
Shame on NTIU for pretending this is a simple issue of “gold plated” pensions for ‘worthless’ public servants! Shame on you NTIU, shame!
So what?!?! I have earned my pension,you whiners are just jealous.Go get your teaching degree and deal with those obnoxious brats all day for 30 years!!!!!
It’s about time someone showed the crux of the matter. It is the government employees.
There IS a class system in the US. But, the classes are the private sector employees, the vast majority of workers, and the government workers. The private sector employees essentially work for the government employees. The private sector employees are subject to all the competition and insecurities of a competitive economic system. They can easily lose their job in recession, and they need to really perform in order to keep their job. Their wages increase only if they are working for a company doing well, and they are important to the company.
Contrast this to government employees, who are almost never fired, get raises regularly, and have no tough management negotiating hard to keep their wages reasonable or subject to competition. The retirement benefits are just another case of the many benefits government employees get, which very few private sector employees can match.
Here is a joke, but true observation:
How many sick days does the average government employee take every year?
Answer: ALL of them!
Of course, private sector employees wouldn’t dare take sick days if they weren’t sick, ordinarily. If they routinely took every sick day they could, they would risk being downsized in the next company cutback.
Yep, two classes. The taxpayers support the lavish benefits of government workers. And, the logic would be that government workers should be paid less than private sector employees, as they have a much much greater degree of job security. Less risk, less reward.
When will Illinois people wake up and up and stop voting for the democrat thugs.
You really need a strong politician wiling to stand up to the thuggery of the government employees and their unions. The government employees won’t vote for him, but if he truly laid out the truth of this matter, he would have the majority of the private sector employees voting for him, and win in a landslide.
Think of it, when a new government employee lands a decent government job, essentially, he becomes an instant millionaire or multi-millionaire. All he has to do is hang onto that job until a quite early retirement.
If you are making $100,000 per year, it would take at least a $2,000,000 investment portfolio to make that income.
A great big thanks to your organization for publicizing and creating transparency on the subject of the enormous and unaffordable pensions of Illinois public employees.
This is unsustainable. If we aren’t careful this state will be in the same position as California…BANKRUPT.
We serfs need to rise up against the royalty of the state and take it back for our childen’s sake.
I never heard of your group until I listened to your recent radio spot bringing attention the proposed Illinois State Income tax hike.
I commend all your efforts and hope more people get involved.
Please just do not point the finger at one culprit and not the others….
It is long overdue that taxpayers in this state take control. First let’s not forget Mayor Daley… castigating Gov. Quinn when he just sold the public parking meters which raised rates dramatically, or his tax on commercial garbage dumpsters, which affects small business owners and now his plans to put parking meters at the Lakefront… What’s next parking meters on all the sidestreets? Last year, he passed a slew of taxes including a tax of .5 cents on a bottle of water.
What erks me it we’re in a deep recession when working folks are really hurting. Mark my words… as soon as the economy picks up and with all these new taxes in place, Daley and the 50 alderman will seek and obtain hefty pay raises for themselves. All he thinks about is the Olympics!
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is another one. Raises our county taxes to the highest in the nation….
What’s happening here is that working class people and small businesses will be driven out of the state.
There are too many alderman, Chicago doesn’t need 50 alderman for 2.7 million people with their bloated budgets and staffs…
People Wake UP!
Seems like a lot of really bad spelling and less than knowledgable posters in here.
Increase in pensions? Isn’t the real issue that we need to fund the pensions that the employees have already been promised? A deal is a deal and the state has been skimping on that deal for years and years now. We need to catch up on pensions if we are going to be in a position to make good on our promises.
Anyone know where I can go to find examples of retired teachers drawing $320,000/year pensions? My mother is a retired school teacher downstate. Her pension is a pittance and is so far away from that number that I consider the ad being run on Chicago radio suggesting that teachers draw such pensions as little more than a bald faced lie.
For those of you that are so opposed to government pensions, is that just because of jealousy that you didn’t have the qualifications to work somewhere where you could qualify for one or what? Pensions are, by far, the best retirement vehicle out there for working people. We should be advocating more pensions in both the private and public sector not less.
By the way, you pension agnostics should take a look at the sweetheart pensions deals that active military and police officers get. Do you want to do away with those too? Remember, you get the quality you pay for.
These comments are bogus. “Benjamin Dover”?
What kind of far right think tank is funding this trainwreck…
I don’t like a tax increase by no means and Quinn at the bottom of my list for favorite people…buttt…don’t go condemming all retired state employees….I am a retired state employee and know alot of retirees from the state.None of us,(like 95% of retired state employees) wish they got the kind of money you were implying. LAVISH? Try just getting by. I put in 25 years with the Dept of Corrections and I get a big $22,800.00 a year. If you call this LAVISH, something is so wrong. Not alot of state retirees make that kind of retirement you claim,our names are not QUINN,or Maddigan or all those other high payed politicians,so please don’t make it sound like all state retirees have this LAVISH retirement cause with more than the majority of retirees it’s just not true. Please tell the public the whole truth,not just what you want them to hear to enrage them. I’ll bet the ones making the kind of money you claim in retirement is less than 7%.Most state retirees are just getting by including myself.