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WGLT | National Taxpayers United campaigns against state pensions 0

WGLT | National Taxpayers United campaigns against state pensions

Findings from TUA’s pension project on Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, are featured in this story from WGLT. The head of a conservative anti tax group is publishing pension benefit amounts for retired McLean County teachers and...

Hundreds of Bloomington – Normal Government Retirees Become Pension Millionaires at Taxpayer Expense 0

Hundreds of Bloomington – Normal Government Retirees Become Pension Millionaires at Taxpayer Expense

View Release as PDF Bloomington—Taxpayers United of America (TUA) today released the results of a new pension study of the employees of the Cities of Bloomington and Normal, McLean County, McLean County government schools,...

Myths About Average Government Pension$ Debunked 1

Myths About Average Government Pension$ Debunked

View Release as PDF CHICAGO—Illinois politicians and government union bosses are trying to deflect criticism of their lavish, gold-plated pensions by throwing out a deceptive “average” pension figure of $30,000, according to the president...

Wilmette School District 39 Fails To Provide Evidence That Its April 2011 Referendum Ballot Language "Followed Illinois Law" 1

Wilmette School District 39 Fails To Provide Evidence That Its April 2011 Referendum Ballot Language "Followed Illinois Law"

View as PDF CONTACT: Herbert Sorock (847) 251-8955 (h) email: h.sorock@gmail.com WILMETTE, IL –Wilmette School District 39 has failed to substantiate its December 3, 2012, claim in a media release that its April 2011...

Chicago Tribune | U.S. OKs turning Elgin-O'Hare into tollway 0

Chicago Tribune | U.S. OKs turning Elgin-O'Hare into tollway

Jim Tobin, President of Taxpayers United for America, was quoted in the Chicago Tribune on turning the Elgin-O’Hare into a tollway.  The federal government has signed off on an agreement allowing the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway...

Daily Chronicle | Group crunches pension numbers 0

Daily Chronicle | Group crunches pension numbers

Findings from TUA’s pension project on Dekalb, Illinois, are featured in this story from the Daily Chronicle. To see video of the story, click on the image below. DeKALB – Jim Tobin says the...