Health & Fitness
Illinois' taxpayer crisis trumps its pension crisis
By Benjamin Yount | Illinois Watchdog
SPRINGFIELD — The top Democrat in the Illinois Senate says the state’s worst-in-the-nation pension debt is not a crisis. And he’s right.
Senate President John Cullerton points out that Illinois’ pension debt merely is slowly bankrupting the state.
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As Benjamin Yount writes at Illinois Watchdog, Cullerton should be worried there are enough taxpayers to pay the bills.
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