A $38,000 clock. Four-hundred-dollar doorknobs. Redecorated bathrooms for state legislators and staff — more than $444,000.The "stature" of a state like Illinois. $950 urinals.All this from a state with the biggest underfunded state public pension system.As Murray Rothbard has said, the state is nothing more than a criminal gang.What better proof than this?
Those are among the hidden costs of a multimillion-dollar makeover of the Illinois House and Senate with opulent showpieces re-creating the look of the chambers in the late 1800s.
“Certainly, the chamber has to be nice and to befit a state of our stature. It’s not like we’re Mississippi. We’re a rich state,” said Rep. Jack Franks (D-Woodstock). “
Saturday, May 19, 2007
$28 million rehab of Illinois Statehouse includes $950 urinals, $405 doorknobs
The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the criminal gang in Illinois: