(Heartland.org) "If they don’t write a check, they don’t include it in the budget,” Weinberg says. “So they’re just not paying the bills” even though bills keep coming due. Illinois, for instance, may owe up to $8 billion on overdue bills, according to Weinberg. Government leaders there have gone years pushing bills from one year into the next year, but that just makes the next year’s obligations even bigger.  Read more.