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Originally Posted by the urban politician
We have these problems too.
Illinois messed up huge.
It may not have been with the electric grid, but in fucking up its finances for generations to come.
And what did we buy for that? Fine, we aren't totally out of power for 5 days, but that doesn't mean we don't still have plenty of big time problems due to failing infrastructure.
If all of those tax dollars went toward making our infrastructure spic and span, I'd be the last person complaining and the first person showing up to the Cook & Lake County Treasurer's office to pay my tax bills.
But alas, that's not what happened. Most of it is going towards unnecessary personnel and their platinum pension packages. And you still get a worthless fuck on the phone half the time you call Chicago's Water Dept. And don't even get me started on the Cook County Treasurer's office. Have you ever tried calling them? They don't even HAVE a person answering the phone, you get thrown around in a hilariously never ending feedback loop of recorded messages that's literally like a Saturday Night Live routine.  |
While I am not in any way denying the long-term stupidity of Illinois' financial situation, I highly suggest you take a much deeper look into Texas' own financial morass. The state pretty much pawns everything off on regional and local districts, and these districts have absolutely atrocious amounts of debt. The shell game every entity uses in Texas to deny a deficit being a deficit, debt being debt, is absolutely comically bad.
Trust me, Texas is no panacea of financial stability.
Aaron (Glowrock)