Data expert: Illinois government 'bloat' is unsustainable for taxpayers
Story by Catrina Petersen • 13h
(The Center Square) – More than 140,000 Illinois government-sector workers and retirees received more than $100,000 in compensation in 2023, according to a new report from Wirepoints.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski said Illinois residents are forced to pay the nation’s highest property taxes, and one of the highest tax burdens overall, to fund the $100,000-plus government salaries and pensions of the public sector. Dabrowski explained how taxpayers paying these large salaries for a growing number of government workers is unsustainable.
“The bigger the divide gets between the government sector, which has pension guarantees, the Constitutional protections of Amendment 1, guaranteed labor contracts, guaranteed raises … they get all that. The private sector doesn’t get any of those kinds of protections, and yet they have to pay higher and higher taxes to pay for the government class. We’re creating two classes of workers: one that’s protected and one that’s not,” said Dabrowski.
Dabrowski said public school superintendents have the biggest share of the taxpayer funded pie. According to Wirepoints, there are 56,000 teachers and administrators in Illinois schools who are getting a pension or salary over $100,000.
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