Forced-unionism advocate and soon-to-retire Gov. Dannel Malloy rammed through two huge tax increases. But revenue from personal income, sales, and corporate taxes has flatlined in Connecticut. Credit: Jason Reed/Reuters Pro-Union Monopoly Policies Plunging Nutmeg State Into Deep Debt Late last…
Unchaining Employees Can Save Illinois, Connecticut, New Jersey For years, government union monopolists have been ripping off ordinary, hardworking taxpayers in Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey — all states where both private- and public-sector employees may be forced to…
More ‘Detroits’ Loom Unless Union Special Privileges Are Curtailed (click to download newsletter) On December 3, Detroit, at one time a magnet for ambitious job seekers…
Many parties share the blame for the fiscal debacle that led to Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing this July, which this Tuesday was approved, over union bosses’ loud and angry objects, by a federal judge. The primary culprits are, without…
Yesterday U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes rejected government union lawyers’ claims that Detroit, despite its enormous and manifestly unsustainable debt burden, isn’t really bankrupt. As Bill McMorris reported for the Washington Free Beacon in the news account linked below: .
Why is Detroit the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy? Is the Motor City’s horrendous fiscal plight primarily a result of its own peculiar history and other special circumstances? Or are dozens, if not scores, of other…
Yesterday, Detroit, once a magnet for ambitious job seekers across the country, became the largest U.S. city ever to file for bankruptcy. As Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes discusses in the commentary linked below, a key factor in the Motor…
Nicole Gelinas looks at how big labor monopoly power has bankrupted cities and the end result is their retirees are getting the shaft because of it. Imagine you’re a retiree with chronic health problems on a fixed income, but…