News Links June 11th, 2015

News coverage for June 11th, 2015 – including continuing Illinois budget squabbling, municipal bankruptcy, government pension problems, government road rodeo, New England tax policy emulating the Midwest, War Socialism, and Judge Napolitano on the Surveillance State.

• Chicago Tribune: Rauner ratchets up rhetoric against Madigan, Cullerton amid impasse
• WirePoints: Illinois Municipal Bankruptcy: Updates and Further Thoughts
• Fund Reference: Pension Funds Are Their Own Worst Enemy (and a Boglehead’s Worst Nightmare)
• Daily Herald: How Route 53 extension could gain from Illiana’s loss
• WSJ: Connecticut Tax Boomerang
• FEE: Socialism Is War and War Is Socialism
• Antiwar.com: Lies the Government Is Telling You