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Information WarMarch 9, 2016

When the Takers Make More than the Makers

By The Editor

If more Americans knew this, they’d be even more angry. This is clearly an area where most Republican elected officials would rather taxpayers remain in the dark. Here is Gene Van Son writing at American…

Information WarFebruary 24, 2016

How Public Pension Contracts Violate the U.S. Constitution

By The Editor

Here is a fascinating and sensible argument from Michael Bargo, Jr. writing at American Thinker: Public sector pension contracts have started to bankrupt communities and threaten the economic viability of states such as Illinois….

Links to Commentary and real JournalismJanuary 31, 2016

Pensions vs. schools

By The Editor

By Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner

Links to Commentary and real JournalismJanuary 15, 2016

Union Dues Blues: Government labor groups have a customer-satisfaction problem

By The Editor

By Steven Malanga

Links to Commentary and real JournalismJanuary 15, 2016

Union Power in Jeopardy

By The Editor

By Daniel DiSalvo: Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association could end public unions’ coercion of dues,

Links to Commentary and real JournalismJanuary 3, 2016

Rahm Emanuel’s Liberal Policy Woes

By The Editor

By Thomas Lifson

Links to Commentary and real JournalismJanuary 2, 2016

Government Debt Bubble Is Based On Credit Theft

By The Editor

By Michael Bargo Jr.: The Illinois Policy Institute found that while Illinois has over 800 school districts, in over 400 districts the teachers pay little or nothing into their own pension funds.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismDecember 28, 2015

Which Are Death Spiral States?

By The Editor

By William Baldwin

Links to Commentary and real JournalismDecember 11, 2015

The Alliance Between Wall Street and Public Unions

By The Editor

By Ed Ring

Information WarDecember 6, 2015

40% of ex-judges’ pensions higher than old salaries

By The Editor

It’s not just ex-judges’ pensions that more taxpayers need to learn about — and if Republicans and conservatives were in the information war and reaching more people with the facts (like those found in…

Information WarDecember 1, 2015

Yes, Illinois needs pension reform

By Bill Zettler

Editor’s note: Talk about a failure in the information war! Here is Bill Zettler’s article from ten years ago today — how few Illinois taxpayers understand the extent of legalized theft taking place at…

Links to Commentary and real JournalismNovember 26, 2015

10 Reasons Illinois Bureaucrats (And Their Friends) Are Thankful Today

By The Editor

By Adam Andrzejewski

Links to Commentary and real JournalismNovember 15, 2015

Toward a Conservation Model of Government Spending

By The Editor

By Michael Bargo, Jr.: The only real solution may be to eliminate all public pensions, mandate 401K plans for all public employees.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 13, 2015

Moral Values That Underlie Opposition to Government Unions

By The Editor

By Ed Ring: Often missing from entirely legitimate criticism of government unions is an accompanying explanation of the moral values that underlie the criticism.

Links to Commentary and real JournalismOctober 13, 2015

Shocking Stats Show How Much More Government Employees Make Than Average Americans

By The Editor

From PatriotUpdate.com