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Fewer young people could mean a shrinking population and a workforce too small to support the country’s ever-growing number of retirees. If that’s a problem nationally, then it’s a full-on crisis in Illinois.
House Bill 3053 is also known as the Classrooms First Act. That’s because it prioritizes spending on teachers, supplies and services that students need over its taxpayer-funded opponents: school district superintendents. But local government employees with some extraordinary paychecks are trying to snuff it out.
The gaming division of Sony Corp. wrote a check for $1.2 million to Chicago to settle unpaid liabilities under the city’s first-in-the-nation “Netflix tax,” suggesting some tech and entertainment companies are choosing to pay instead of fight the tax regime in court.
Though the continue to oppose the graduated income tax.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/hundreds-of-thousands-spent-on-sports-tickets-by-democratic-leaders-509965681.html
In Park Ridge, and across Illinois, property values still haven’t recovered from the effects of the Great Recession. Yet local officials continue to tax more and more, especially to pay for schools and local pensions.
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