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Comment: Includes a line-item summary, the first we’ve see, which they had to cobble together themselves because the governor’s office still hasn’t provided one.
Comment: Amen to this. And demand that teachers’ unions apologize for their campaign of lies that made pension spiking easier.
Presented without comment.
In another spectacular display of bad judgment, members of the House and Senate have opened the way to more pension “spiking” by local school boards that will add to the terrible underfunding woes faced by the Teachers Retirement System.
Comment: The Proft-Martwick panel starts at the 12:00 mark. Before that you can listen to Cullerton’s whopping lies, including a claim that the new budget pays down debt. Martwick repeats that, too.
https://www.journalstandard.com/opinion/20190608/my-view-pritzker-dancing-on-backs-of-struggling-illinoisans
Read the examples of reported bias. Hilarious. Why are places like this even called “universities”?
“Sure, let’s hand out raises at retirement time to teachers and administrators.It’s Someone Else’s Money. Why not be generous?”
Great collection here of examples where your new taxes will go. The pork barrel bonanza comes courtesy of Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s $45 billion construction program that lawmakers approved as the spring legislative session spilled into overtime last weekend.
Surprise, surprise. The new law is rigged for political insiders. The legislation is a triumph for rookie Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker — and for special-interest lobbying that yielded protections and opportunities for current gaming investors such as Neil Bluhm, a billionaire Chicago real-estate mogul and major donor to Democrats. He benefited along with casino operators, racetracks, professional sports leagues, stadium owners and even the proprietors of truck stops, who will be allowed to add more slot machines.
U of Chicago grad students at the front.
Why not change it to something appropriate, to this? “Illinois: Shut up and Take it.” Because if you’re a taxpayer, that’s exactly what you’re expected to do. Just shut up and take it.
Especially now that Gov. Big Boy and his boss, House Speaker Michael J. Madigan and the iron-fisted Democratic legislative majority have passed an amazing $40 billion operating budget and another $45 billion capital spending plan chock-full of pork and dripping with pork fat.
When state lawmakers endorsed a sweeping expansion of gambling, most attention focused on the license granted to Chicago. The same bill, however, could bring two gambling complexes to the south suburbs. One would be a combined racetrack and casino — it’s being called a “racino” — that lawmakers and village officials say could be slated for the 280-acre campus of the closed Tinley Park Mental Health Center. The south suburbs also would get a separate casino license, minus the racetrack. At least three sites are being pushed for that development, and more may emerge.
Illinois has a throwback rule, the more aggressive approach.
In a brief meeting Wednesday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted developer Bob Dunn for slipping authorization for $5 billion into the state capital budget for his One Central development without consulting local legislators.
Comment: By Rich Miller, de facto spokesman for Illinois public unions, and the most perniciously biased voice in the Illinois press.
Some black Chicagoans looking to get into the industry voiced concerns about those firms having months to establish footholds in the expanded marketplace and potentially dominate the industry before other licenses are doled out to grow and sell the drug.
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“Since sending the previous aldermen to jail has not done anything to curb Chicago’s tidal wave of aldermanic corruption cases, there is no reason to think that sending Mr. Cochran to jail will,” the former alderman’s lawyer wrote to the judge.
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