Illinois state Rep. Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) engaged in a fiery rant on the floor of the state House where he threw papers and screamed at his fellow representatives over the stateÂ’s unfunded pension liabilities and Democrat-lead pension reform measures.
“These damn bills that come out here all the damn time, come out here at the last second,” screamed Bost. “I’ve got to figure out how to vote for my people! You should be ashamed of yourselves! I’m sick of it!”
In an interview with Hemmer, Bost said that he doesn’t “normally act that way.”
“We’re dealing with pension reform because of our large debt, which is tremendous,” said Bost. “Unfortunately, at 7:40 we get a completely changed bill from the Speaker of the House that just decided on his own to create this bill. And it had a tremendous shift to the local taxpayers – to local homeowners onto property tax.”
Hemmer clarified that the bill would shift responsibility for compensating for the stateÂ’s debt by shifting the tax burden to downstate homeowners rather than the suburbs of Chicago.
