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Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Includes Illegal Immigrants
An Illinois county is paying illegal immigrants for making it across the border and winding up in the mess that is the Chicago area. US taxpayers already pay around [...]
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Illinois First State to Get Free Money from Fed
Illinois became the first entity to borrow from the Fed’s new facility known as the “Municipal Liquidity Facility” for state and local governments. The [...]
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Is California the Worst Economic Nightmare in the USA?
QUESTION: Marty, Whenever you refer to California Dreaming, my blog post from a few years back, I cannot help but smile. Thank you for your chart on the California [...]
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The Illinois Pension Crisis – Giving The Pensioners All State Assets
The new proposal in Illinois is for the state to transfer its assets so that they are owned, not by the people, but by the state employees. These proposals will [...]
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Chicago – Where More People are Retired than Paying into Government Pensions
Over 80% of government pension funds are completely funded by the government with no employees paying into the funds. This reflects why governments are coming after [...]
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Illinois Confiscating and Selling Cars if you Owe Tickets
Believe it or not, Illinois confiscated and sold 50,000 cars because people had tickets that they could not pay. They still have to pay the banks on their car [...]
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Illinois to Assault the Entire Internet – They May End Up With Businesses Refusing to Deal With People in Illinois
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow every state to tax the internet is complete insanity. Sources in Illinois are warning that the state is bankrupt and it [...]
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Illinois on Brink of Default
While politicians always talk about the poor and the needy, they never talk about how their own pensions are breaking the bank and come before everything else. [...]
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It’s Time to Turn Out the Lights in Illinois
The roads in Illinois are in decay. This may be the first state to go bankrupt. The question is not if, but when. State unions are so greedy that they are [...]
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Illinois Cannot Pay the Politicians
I have warned that Illinois is on the brink of bankruptcy. Now, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Geissler Munger says she will delay monthly paychecks for lawmakers [...]
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