{"id":41582,"date":"2018-12-13T08:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41582"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:36:42","slug":"the-fate-of-all-municipal-governments-look-to-peoria-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41582","title":{"rendered":"The Fate of All Municipal Governments \u2013 Look to Peoria, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/taxes\/the-fate-of-all-municipal-governments-look-to-peoria-illinois\/\">The Fate of All Municipal Governments \u2013 Look to Peoria, Illinois<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Going-Broke.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-81929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Going-Broke.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Going-Broke.jpg 500w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Going-Broke-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Going-Broke-165x110.jpg 165w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The system we have is totally corrupt and it outright UNSUSTAINABLE!!!! In Illinois,\u00a0the city of Peoria has been forced to eliminate 22 firefighter and 16 police positions even after they made 27 layoffs earlier this year. Besides eliminating\u00a0employees, they are now looking at adding a tax of $50-$300 to try to cover their own pension schemes\u00a0as pension spending consuming everything.\u00a0Pension costs are forcing Peoria to cut 38 emergency worker positions and to raise property taxes further. Peoria joins the south Chicago suburb of Harvey which is yet another warning of what is coming over the next three years into 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fate of All Municipal Governments \u2013 Look to Peoria, Illinois The system we have is totally corrupt and it outright UNSUSTAINABLE!!!! In Illinois,\u00a0the city of Peoria has been forced to eliminate 22 firefighter and 16 police positions even after they made 27 layoffs earlier this year. Besides eliminating\u00a0employees, they are now looking at adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,1361,195,9989,5479,23461,1816,23462,7383],"class_list":["post-41582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-bankruptcy","tag-debt","tag-illinois","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-municipal-government","tag-pensions","tag-peoria","tag-public-pensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41583,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41582\/revisions\/41583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}