Government Employee Pensions/Pay

It’s time for ‘Taxpayers Week’

By Bill Zettler

After reading various news reports recently promoting “Education Week” I decided it would only be fair that I represent the taxpayer for “Taxpayer Week” where we taxpayers would solicit praise from various public employee…

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Yes, Illinois needs pension reform

By Bill Zettler

Give ’em a million, save a billion.

That is my answer to Darwin Heide’s letter urging all of us to call Springfield and let them know how upset we are that they are not raising our taxes by $320 billion (or $8 billion a year for the next 40 years) to make millionaires out of public employees when they retire at age 55.

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Average State Pensions Are Far Above Average (Part 2)

Average State Pensions Are Far Above Average (Part 2)

By Bill Zettler

In Part 1 of this two part series we discover that the supposedly “modest” average teacher pension is 4 to 7 times greater than the equivalent Social Security pension for the same years worked and salary earned. In Part 2 we examine the other pension state systems: SURS (State University Retirement System), SERS (State Employees Retirement System), JRS (Judges Retirement System) and GARS (General Assembly Retirement System).

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Government path to destruction: Pro public sector unions / anti free market

By John Biver

Timothy P. Carney writes in the Washington Examiner that Jeff Immelt’s GE is Obama’s kind of corporation: “[It] marches in sync with government, pocketing subsidies, profiting from regulation, and lobbying for more of both.”

Carney writes that Bill Daley is “Obama’s kind of businessman: a banker who leverages his political connections for profit.”

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