NR Daily: The Pension Crisis Is Starting to Hit Home. School Choice Might Be the Only Answer.

Talk to the people of Illinois about America's looming public-pension crisis, and they'll tell you it's not looming — it's already here. This month, a statute went into effect giving Comptroller Susana Mendoza the right to make up for any town or county's delinquent pension payments by seizing its share of sales, excise, and other taxes collected by the state. The result is that municipalities across Illinois have been scrambling to either cut services or raise taxes ...

January 26 2018

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The Pension Crisis Is Starting to Hit Home. School Choice Might Be the Only Answer. Lewis M. Andrews Talk to the people of Illinois about America's looming public-pension crisis, and they'll tell you it's not looming — it's already here. This month, a statute went into effect giving Comptroller Susana Mendoza the right to make up for any town or county's delinquent pension payments by seizing its share of sales, excise,... READ MORE The Fight for School Choice Is Far from Over Ted Cruz This week, Americans are celebrating National School Choice Week, a time to raise awareness about the educational options available to families and to advocate for giving them even more choice.... California's Soft Secession Accelerates David French Earlier this week Twitter briefly lit up with news of yet another California progressive excess. The state's Democratic house majority leader has submitted a bill that imposes criminal penalties... ADVERTISEMENT Sending Waiters to Jail for Offering Plastic Straws Katherine Timpf The state of California is considering a bill that would punish waiters at sit-down restaurants with up to six months in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, for offering customers straws — because... Trump's Tariffs Are Statism on the March Jonah Goldberg The Trump administration is now moving to put some teeth on its promise to punish "unfair" trade from China and other countries. This week it imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese and South Korean... The Russia 'Fake News' Scare Is All about Chilling Speech David Harsanyi Last week, Republicans began to call for the release of a memo authored by House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes that purports to lay out a series of abuses connected to the FBI... Durbin-Graham Is the Problem, Not the Solution Rich Lowry After the experience of the past two weeks, it's not White House adviser Stephen Miller and Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas who should be expelled from immigration negotiations, but Dick Durbin... ADVERTISEMENT The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 James D. Hornfischer "A masterful account of the barbaric last year of the Pacific War...The Fleet at Flood Tide is, quite simply, popular and scholarly military history at its best." - Victor Davis Hanson LEARN MORE Baseball Hall of Fame Tokyo Snowstorm ADVERTISEMENT Follow Us & Share 19 West 44th Street, Suite 1701, New York, NY, 10036, USA Your Preferences | Unsubscribe | Privacy View this e-mail in your browser.