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Our view: Our deadbeat government

If you were a business or organization with a deadbeat client who routinely ignored your bills, how would you handle it?

You’d probably stop doing business with the person altogether. You certainly wouldn’t keep providing services that you suspected you’d never get paid for performing. Maybe you’d eventually walk away and consider it a lesson learned.

But what if your client was the state of Illinois?

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