Everyone hates them, studies have shown that they don't improve safety, and they've been tied to corruption. So, why not get rid of them? Money. Lots of it.
So, I'm sitting here in the office looking at an email from IllinoisPolicy about mayoral salaries here in Illinois, and I'm starting to think that perhaps I've made a vocational error. I'm learning that some of Illinois' mayors are among the highest-payed mayors in the entire world.
When my family and I were planning a Vegas trip recently, we were looking into some of the cool and unusual things that you can't do in most places. We found things like driving exotic and/or race cars, gun ranges that let you shoot machine guns and rocket launchers (and for an extra $3500, crush a car with an Abrams tank...