Moves to America's Failing State!
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/10/illinois-debt-deficit-budget-election-239384
llinois has compiled $14.6 billion in unpaid bills. It’s running a deficit of $6 billion and its pension liability has soared to $130 billion.
That’s not the worst of it. The state’s nearly two-year failure to pass a budget has sent its bond ratings careening toward junk level, downgraded a staggering eight notches below most other states.
With university enrollments plummeting, large-scale social service agencies shuttering and the Chicago Public Schools forced to borrow just to stay open through the end of this school year, Illinois is beginning to devolve into something like a banana republic — and it’s about to have the most expensive election the state has ever seen.
“Illinois is operating in a way 49 other states would never try to operate,” said Laurence Msall, president of the Civic Federation, a non-partisan fiscal watchdog group. “There is permanent damage that is being done that will take decades to repair.”