Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.
The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.
The people of Illinois sent me to Springfield to end the era of unbalanced budgets and runaway debt.
Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sitting across the bargaining table from, through campaign donations and expenditures.
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.