[legion]

Government entities have a monopoly on government services. As such, if the cost of providing the service goes up (for whatever reason), they just raise the price (taxes), as they have no competition.

Many are attracted to the public sector because of high-pay, little work, generous benefits, and little chance of ever getting fired. They come in with a mentality of extracting as much as possible from the system--which they learned from the labor unions that represent them. Taking a few hundred extra dollars at taxpayer expense has quickly grown to taking a few hundred-thousand extra dollars at taxpayer expense.

I do notice that no one from Chicago proper is on that list. Of course, those guys have figured out how to spend public accounts on themselves, collect paychecks for ghost employees, and get appointed to jobs they never do. The bureaucrats in Chicago know how to stay below the radar while extracting huge sums of money from "the system" (i.e. other citizens pockets).