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Wednesday’s Budget address is time to put up or shut up..
We’ve written often here about Susana Mendoza’s constant misuse of the Illinois Comptroller’s office to peddle a key piece of her party’s political message – that Illinois’ fiscal problems result almost entirely from Bruce Rauner and a budget impasse he caused.
Her latest takes the cake – using that message against Bill Daley in their contest for Chicago mayor.
Yes, Bill Daley is responsible for Rauner’s performance, which caused our problems, she says in a new ad. “After co-chairing Bruce
A clean sweep of the heads of the Chicago Park District, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Housing Authority would cost taxpayers at least $820,000 in golden parachute salaries — and more for benefits — in addition to the salaries for the new appointees. That’s according to an analysis of those contracts by the Chicago Sun-Times.
A detailed, annual look prepared by Moody’s for the Illinois Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.
Ted was on WTAD with Quaid earlier this week talking about Gov. Pritzker’s idea to transfer public assets, like the lottery or the tollways, into the state’s pension funds. The plan is a financial trick on taxpayers.
Comment: So much nonsense being thrown around in the emergency declaration debate. The first two of Trump’s sources of funds Congress already authorized presidents to use, to be used sequentially, require no emergency declaration. For the third, Congress left the president free to define emergency. This is in fact, all a matter of reading the authorizations Congress already gave.
Illinoisans shouldn’t fall for Pritzker’s progressive tax push. The state is already too uncompetitive with its neighbors. It’s too much of an outlier on taxes. And it’s losing too many people.
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