Year after year, Big Labor-dominated Illinois is losing taxpaying citizens to states where union bosses wield less unwarranted power. That’s now true of neighboring Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Taxpayers in forced-unionism Illinois have seen their tax burdens skyrocket, their public debt liability soar, and the quality of their K-12 schools and other vital public services deteriorate.
Four teachers are suing their union because the union's so-called "escape period" does not fall in line with the 2018 Janus v. AFSCME ruling.
The news hit union-label Govs. J.B. Pritzker (D-Ill.), Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), and Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) like a cold slap in the face.
Perhaps no other state is currently in a deeper fiscal hole than forced-unionism Illinois, where there are more than $12 billion in unfunded liabilities of local public-safety pension funds alone.
In non-right-to-work states the total population of people in their peak-earning-years fell over the past decade from 44.20 million to 40.93 million.
Illinois taxpayers are on the hook for a total of $424 billion in state and local retirement debt.
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Big Labor Gov. J.B. Pritzker (pictured with state teacher union czarina Kathi Griffin, a close political ally) is hiking taxes on all kinds of Illinoisans, including unionized workers whose forced dues and fees helped put him in office. Credit: J.B.