By Kevin Bessler, includes “… Jim Tobin, the founder of the Taxpayer Education Foundation, is opposed to any kind of federal bailout and said the Illinois state government needs to fail to change its irresponsible spending habits. … ‘Illinois has been mismanaging taxpayer money for decades,’ said Rae Ann McNeilly … ‘This indebtedness did not accrue in the single year of the COVID-19 pandemic. To bail out Illinois politicians and strip them of their accountability for their policies would be a grave mistake.’ …”