"Fire all state employees" says VP of communications, Ill Policy Institute

[Peregrine Took]

and they, IPI. are supposed to lend intellectual heft to the Rauner administration.

Apparently the Tribune actually published this drivel.

http://capitolfax.com/2015/05/11/rickert-fire-all-state-workers/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sorta sounds like the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute,

which can invariably be counted on to come up with cherry-picked data to support whatever right-wing positions they are being paid to support.

[SheilaT]

2. I wonder how long it would take for that jerk

to understand that state employees actually accomplish useful things.

[Stellar]

3. A Ronald Reagan move? nt

[jmowreader]

4. I read the article and it's based on one huge idiotic idea

The theory is, Illinois government employees' pensions are breaking the state. If they fire the employees then rehire them, they can force those people to move into 401(k) plans.

Unfortunately, when you fire then rehire a government employee in the real world everything the government employee had coming to him or her before the firing is still coming to him or her - INCLUDING the pension plan that is standing in the way of yet another budget-busting tax cut.

Make no mistake: right wingers' entire worldview revolves around tax cuts and deregulation.