On Friday, Tribune columnist Eric Zorn published an email he received from John Tillman in which the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) executive director repeated his description of public employees as the "new wealth class."  Tillman's reasoning?  According to research conducted by his conservative think tank, government workers "make 15.7% more than the private sector workers who pay those salaries." 

To his credit, Zorn qualified this data.  Specifically, he cited our March post noting that it's misleading for IPI to compare all private sector jobs to all public sector ones when the latter contains far fewer lower-earning occupations (such as waiters and retail salespeople).  Will Tillman respond?