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Pritzker’s 2020 “bridge” budget to his progressive income tax panacea is almost entirely comprised of exactly the kinds of measures that broke the state. And as usual, it’s only “balanced” under phony government budget accounting.
Pritzker plans to raise $75 million for his proposed budget by capping the amount of money retailers can keep for collecting sales tax for the state.
The Illinois courts have closed the door to the creative math that allowed one western suburb’s retired police officers to use a one-time $850 bonus to boost their retirement take by as much as six figures.
Delivered Feb. 20, 2019
Our summary and comments are linked here.
Part 2 of their excellent, detailed look at legal gambling in Illinois.
Our Wirepoints article republished.
“We are big supporters of the Obama Presidential Center…. But we have never much cared for the overly orchestrated way the center has been brought to town. For all the public hearings and shows of transparency, a small circle of Obama associates — at City Hall, the Chicago Park District and the University of Chicago — has largely controlled the process of where and how the center is to be built.”
Union endorsements vary, or they are staying neutral.
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