Last fall, Democrats said Illinois needed a minimum wage hike to help those who are at the bottom of the wage scale. They needed more money, the Governor pleaded, since they lived in poverty and already suffer under a low minimum wage.
Illinois now has 8,000 retired government workers who earn more than $100,000 a year in their pension, and this number will increase to 20,000 retirees by 2020. Someone needs to pay for it. Including those who earn minimum wage. So the minimum wage earners who believed that Pat Quinn wanted to help them not only were hustled out of their vote but are being hustled, with every paycheck, out of 1.8% of their minimum wage pay and are being forced to contribute to the pensions of those getting $100,000 a year. Democrats talk of redistributing income but in reality all they do is redistribute debt.
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