Z-gram 03: Why does the worst teacher in every school get a 26% salary boost prior to retirement?

Pension reform: Who you gonna believe Madigan or Moodys?

Z-gram 02: 10,801 Teacher Salaries over $100,000 means 10,801 pensions over $100,000 in the near future.

Z-Gram 01: Should any retired teacher have a pension of $399,652 per year?

Introducing the “Z-Gram”

2013 State Pensions: 9,954 over $100,000 Up 30% from 2012. Top 100 Average $242,000 – Ninety-nine are Educators.

Top 100 State pensions for 2013

Are TRS Trustees taking too many investment risks?

Taxpayers have contributed $7 billion more to TRS than required by 1995 Pension funding law.

Save more lives: Ban hands and feet not assault rifles.

Pension Insanity: Drivers Ed Teacher Retires June 8, 2012 with pension of $183,668.

No recession in teacher-land: 10,000 teacher salaries over $100,000 in 2012 up 33% from 2011.

Barrington Dist. 220 teachers: 19% raises are not enough we’re going on strike. What other goodies are in their contract?

10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About IL State Pensions.

Pension Unfunded Jumps from $82 Billion to $168 Billion Due to New Accounting Rules

The Purpose of Government is not Government Employees

Politicians & Unions Lied To Us in 1995 and Have Been Lying to Us Ever Since

Quinn’s Pension Reform: Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic.

Pension Reform – Diminish and Impair Everything Except Pensions

High School English Teacher Laments Tribune “Pummeling”.

Yes, Public School Districts Should Pay for Pensions

Retired College Teacher With $152,000 Pension Claims Pension Reform is Theft

Pension Reform Plan: Taxpayer Costs Must be Fixed, not Unlimited

10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About IL State Pensions.

Taxpayers Have Contributed 230% More Than Teachers Since 2001

Teacher Unions Dump $1.4 Million into March 2012 IL Primary

Why Is Illinois’sTop Teacher Salary $108,000 More Than Kentucky’s?

Anatomy of a Teacher’s Contract: Blueprint for a Taxpayer Mugging

LTE calls pension reform “brash”. I disagree.

With 75,000 Unemployed Teachers in Illinois, Why Don’t We Just Replace Any That Go On Strike?

Top 100 IL School Salaries will pull down $1 billion in pension payments.

Top 100 Teacher Salaries for 2011: Phys. Ed Teacher Heads List with $203,154.

ERO: How Benefit Enhancements Drive Up Pension Costs.

IL Pensions: 130+ benefit increases since 1970 are the major cause of unfunded liability.

2011 State Pensions: 5,467 Over $100,000 Up 30% From 2010: Top 100 Average $227,000 – Ninety-nine Are Educators

Top 100 Illinois State Pensions as of November 2011

Politicians (GARS) Top 25 Pensions as of Nov 2011

Top 25 State Employee (SERS) Pensions as of Nov. 2011

Judges Retirement System (JRS) Top 25 Pensions 2011

“We are the $99K”; Art Teacher Equates her $99,000 Pension to Social Security

Anatomy of a Teacher’s Letter-to-the-Editor: Guess who Thinks Higher Taxes are a Good Idea?

Legal Corruption: Substitute Teach 1 Day get $108,000 Pension from TRS

Rick Perry is Right – Texas has a Better Answer for Public Pensions than Illinois Does

Limiting state pensions to Illinois median family income doesn’t even solve the problem

$10 Million Pensions Are Here – Top 100 Will Payout over $700 Million

Educator Pension Payouts over $5 Million as of April 2011

Tea Partiers: Talking Points on Illinois’ Pension Problem

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 3

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 2

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 1

Tom Cross Pension Reform Plan a Start but Is It Enough?

School Superintendent Gives back $800,000 in Salary: Selfless Saint or Flim-flam man?

Tom Cross Pension Reform Plan a Start but Is It Enough? (Part 2)

Tom Cross Pension Reform Plan a Start but Is It Enough? (Part 1)

Bill Zettler interviewed by Fox News Chicago: Chicago Union Leaders Grab Millions in Pension Loophole

Anarchy, Wolves and Resource Acquisition – Are We Next?

Barack Obama, Last of the Progressives

Should A Public Employee Have A Yearly Pension Greater Than His Career Pension Contributions?

Should Part-time Public Employees with Partial Careers get Six-figure Pensions?

The Four Rules of “Too”: The Real Reason Why Illinois Pensions Are in Trouble

Any Pension Reform MUST Limit Taxpayer Liability

Country trapped in heat wave – wind power providing zero electric power

Retired teachers getting pensions for 157,700 years they never worked; Should this be guaranteed by the Constitution?

ERO (Early Retirement Option): How the IEA + Politicians Plunder Taxpayers for $1 Billion

Obama: Destroy ATM’s and Bring Back Buggy Whips To Solve Unemployment Problem

It’s time for “Taxpayers Week”

Yes, Illinois needs pension reform

Average” State Pensions Are Far Above Average (Part 2)

“Average” State Pensions Are Far Above Average (Part 1)

Four State Retirees Received Cost-Of-Living-Adjustments of More Than $10,000 In 2011

Teacher Unions Give Politicians $10′s of Millions in Contributions, Politicians Give Teacher Union Members $10′s of Billions in Compensation

Answering a Letter to the Editor from a TRS Trustee

IGPA Pension Report – Disassembling the Dissembling College Professors (Part 5)

IGPA Pension Report – Disassembling the Dissembling College Professors (Part 4)

IGPA Pension Report – Disassembling the Dissembling College Professors (Part 3)

IGPA Pension Report – Disassembling the Dissembling College Professors (Part 2)

IGPA Pension Report – Disassembling the Dissembling College Professors (Part 1)

$800,000/yr for Superintendents Past and Present at Just One School District

Illinois School Administrators Make 67% More than Wisconsin’s

Pension Contributions: Taxpayers $6.2 Billion, Employees $1.5 Billion

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 3

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 2

Taxpayer Limited Liability Pension Reform Bill – Part 1

Illinois’ $30 Billion Per Year K-12 Cost Can Be Reduced Significantly

QUESTION: How Much Do Taxpayers Owe For Unfunded State Pensions? (Part 2)

QUESTION: How Much Do Taxpayers Owe For Unfunded State Pensions? (Part 1)

Pensions Myths and Vampires: They Both Refuse To Die

Illinois Tax Increase Means Obama Loses

Work for the State 5 Years, Pay in Zero, Get $130,000 Pension

Taxpayer Pension Contribution for Gov. Quinn in 2011: $140,000 (Part 2)

Jim Edgar is a pension millionaire with taxpayer dollars

Taxpayer Pension Contribution for Gov. Quinn in 2011: $140,000 (Part 1)

No Shared Sacrifice: Number of $100,000 School Salaries Up 13% To 14,048 in 2010

Top 100 Teacher Salaries 2010

The Moral Nanosecond: Life begins in an instant but which instant?

Is $464,000/yr Salary Too Much for a Village Employee? How about $75,000/mo?

Barack Obama, Last of the Progressives

2010 State Pensions: 4,200 Over $100,000 Up 27% From 2009

State of the State Pensions Part 4: What is the solution?

State of the State Pensions Part 3: Is the system fair to taxpayers?

State of the State Pensions Part 2: What are the sources of the problems?

State of the State Pensions Part 1: What is the magnitude of the problem?

Teacher Unions Say Pensions Are Too Low

Teacher’s Salary Increase Costs Taxpayers $1.3 Million in Extra Pension Payments

Pension Insanity: $75,000 Salary Turns Into $155,000 Pension for One Kindergarten Teacher

State University Top 25 Pensions Average $152,000 for 30 years work

Any Pension Reform MUST Limit Taxpayer Liability

More evidence that Illinois taxpayers pay too much for education, not too little

Governor Pat Quinn and the $400 million

$1 Million Payout to Two Teachers Proves Schools Should Pay for Pensions, Not the State

You Cannot Control Pensions Unless You Control Salaries

Illinois Pensions and Intergenerational Theft

Retiree Gets $224,000 Pension For 18 Years Worked

Book Review: “Unsustainable” by James MacDougald

Pension Mythology: When The Going Gets Tough, Just Make Stuff Up

Teacher Contributes Less for His $130K Pension Than You Do for Your $21K Social Security

If Public Employees Received Raises Equal to Yours There Would Be No Pension Deficit

Illinois Pensions: Rob the Poor and Give it to the Rich

Back To the Pension Future: What Did We Actually Guarantee?

$138 per hour 2nd Grade Teachers Will Bankrupt the State

Six Common Sense Ways to Reduce Unsustainable Taxpayer Pension Costs

To Bill Brady and Pat Quinn: It’s The Pensions Stupid

The Four Rules of “Too”: The Real Reason Why Illinois Pensions Are in Trouble

Illinois Taxpayers Have No Obligation to Make Public Employees Millionaires

Give ‘em a million, save a billion

Governor Pat Quinn and the $400 million

Of Course Edgar Wants to Raise Taxes – He’s Pulling $307,000/yr Out of the System Now

Why The Right To Bear Arms Saves Lives

Pension Reform Law: Putting Lipstick on a Pig

$1 Billion Worth of Pensions

11 Pension Questions for the Next Governor

When the pension deficit hits $100 billion in 2014, what is Plan B?

To Kirk Dilliard and Bill Brady: It’s the Pensions Stupid

Top 100 Teacher Salaries For 2009 Average $160,000

Top 100 Teacher Salaries 2009

A Modest Pension Proposal for Governor Candidates

Anatomy of a Teachers Contract: Blueprint for a Taxpayer Mugging

Six Common Sense Ways to Reduce Unsustainable Taxpayer Pension Costs

Unsustainable: $15,000/month Average Teacher Compensation

Golden Handcuff Awards for 2009 – Teacher Union Contributions to Politicians

Unsustainable Public Employee Salaries: It’s Not Just Teachers Anymore

Illinois Top 100 State Pensions for 2009

Teacher Retiree Class of 2008: One School District, 13 Retirees = $50 Million in Pensions

Gov. Quinn: Raise Taxes on $10/hr Workers by 41% to pay for $10 Million Pensions

When Pension Payouts Exceed 100% of Tax Revenue What Do We Do Then?

Taxpayers Costs: Pension and Retiree Health Care

To Gov. Quinn: Illinois Taxpayers Have No Obligation to Make Public Employees Millionaires

Taxpayers Save $180 Billion If Employees Contribute More

Illinois Pays an Average of 30 Times More Per Student for Superintendents than Arizona

Politicians Ignore $118 Billion Unfunded Retiree Liability

Neither Rain Nor Snow, Nor Sleet Nor Dark of Night Can Prevent Al Gore From Looking Silly

Ten Obama Policies That Mean Double Digit Unemployment As far As the Eye Can See*

No Recession for State Retirees – $100,000 Pensions Up 27% In 2008 To 3,195

Illinois Top 100 Pension Payouts 2007-2008 Fiscal Year Average $204,000

Teacher Compensation Rates By Subject Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2008

No Recession in Illinois Public Schools – $100,000 Salaries Up 17% in 2008

Would The World Be a Better Place if Bill Gates Had Been a Community Organizer Instead of a Capitalist?

Pickin’ on Boone Pickens Boondoggle – Why Wind Power Won’t Work

As Your Retirement Assets Plummet, Your Tax Obligations for Other Peoples Retirement Skyrockets

$700 Billion Taxpayer Fleecing Is Outrageous – So When Are Illinois Politicians Going To Do Something About The State Pension Debacle?

With 75,000 Unemployed Teachers in Illinois, Why Don’t We Just Replace Any That Go On Strike?

If There is a Bobby Jindal Republican in Illinois Would He (or She) Please Stand Up

Bill Zettler: It’s time to solve Illinois’ public pension problem

Golden Handcuff Awards for 2008 – Teacher Union Contributions to Illinois Politicians

When Average Salary Is Not Average: How Teachers Total Compensation Dwarfs Other White Collar Workers

Top 100 Paid Teachers 2007 Salary and Total Compensation

Top 100 School Administrators Salaries and Pensions – Illinois 2007

Illinois School News: $10 million Pensions, $100,000 Raises and a $196,000/yr Art Teacher

Administrator Raises Greater Than The Median Full-time Illinois-Taxpayer Salary of $32,864

Since The Earth Is Not Getting Warmer Shouldn’t We Use More Coal?

Is A TRILLION Dollars Too Much for Illinois Taxpayers to Pay for Public Employees’ Retirement Benefits?

Top Three Employers by County

TAXPAYER LIABILITY for Illinois Retirement Systems as of June 30, 2007

Market Crash Means Illinois Taxpayers Owe More for State Pensions

Global Swarming: A Critical Look at Global Warming, Facts vs. Growing Myths

The taxpayer-funded Illinois growth industry – $100,000+ public pensions – here are just the top 100

Top 100 Administrators Total Compensation Year Ending June 30, 2006

Does your employer contribute $69,000 a year to your 401K retirement plan?

Is $224,000 per Year Too Much Compensation for a Driver’s Ed Teacher?

Is $224,000 per Year Too Much Compensation for a Driver’s Ed Teacher?

Research and Commentary by Bill Zettler

Teacher Unions and the New math: 20% is 10%

Teacher Unions and the New math: 20% is 10%

Dist 211 Teacher Salaries 2003 – 2006

Catalani – Teacher Pension Calculator

Hintz – Teacher Pension Calculator

Curley – Teacher Pension Calculator

26 Million Reasons Why We Need to Reform Illinois Public Pensions

If Warren Buffet is Right: Average Investment Return Is 6.5% not 8.5%

Annuity Contribution Chart: Teacher 8.4% vs. Employer 31%

Pension Contribution: Employee 8.4%, Employer 31% (or maybe 46%)

Correcting the Hormonal Imbalance in Springfield

“We Have Met The Taxpayer and He Is Us”

“We Have Met The Taxpayer and He Is Us”

“Moral Imperative” Public Pension Tax Relief for All Illinois Families

ABC News: Six-Figure Public Employee Pensions

ABC News: Six-Figure Public Employee Pensions

Nothing Good Happens Without a Profit

Top 100 Illinois Taxpayer Funded Pensions

Cross Dressing Taxes