Quick-Takes: Mortality Update, Meep’s Math Matters, and a Few Bailout Reactions

Link: https://marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/quick-takes-mortality-update-meeps

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A few remarks — the total public pension unfunded liability (using the discount rates they themselves use, that is, too high, and thus valuing the unfunded liability too little) is the same size as the full American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 — that is, $1.9 trillion.

That is not how much is getting shoveled to the various state and local governments.

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Author(s): Mary Pat Campbell

Publication Date: 21 March 2021

Publication Site: STUMP at Substack

FIX OR SELL? ILLINOIS’ HIGH PROPERTY TAXES MAKE EITHER TOUGH

Link: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/fix-or-sell-illinois-high-property-taxes-make-either-tough/

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Illinois has 859 school districts and 25% of them serve just one school. Florida, which serves over 700,000 more students than Illinois, has 75 districts. Florida averages 38,000 students per district.

In addition to Illinois being home to the second-highest property taxes in the country, one of the most painful facts about owning a home here is that tax dollars don’t go to the services people expect and value.

Author(s): Hilary Gowins

Publication Date: 11 February 2021

Publication Site: Illinois Policy Institute