Pay Your Fines Stacy

For someone who whines about millionaires and billionaires not paying their "fair share," how about just paying what you're supposed to?

• As president of both the Chicago Teachers Union and Illinois Federation of Teachers, Stacy Davis Gates wants government to take more from Chicagoans and businesses.

  But despite making $273,105 as a union boss, she apparently doesn’t believe government should take from her.

  Davis Gates has let $1,544 in Chicago water, sewer and trash bills pile up, according to the city’s Freedom of Information Act response from Dec. 16. She also owes the city $1,843 for parking tickets and speed violations.

We never made close to $273K, but you can bet on the few occasions we got a speeding ticket or a red light camera ticket, we paid it as soon as it arrived, because (A) we were likely ion the wrong and (B) there were job-related penalties if we ended up on that delinquent list.

Between the fines she and Conehead owe, Chicago might have had a balanced budget.