Editorial: Illinois is No. 1 in the embarrassing category of bloated government – Champaign News-Gazette

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The Civic Federation report calls for the obvious: a rethinking of how state legislators can serve their constituents by eliminating roadblocks to consolidation and urging local officials to take a broad look at this spider’s web of government units financed by unaffordable property taxes. It’s much easier, of course, to do nothing. But the cost is increasingly unaffordable.