Editorial: City Council has a Google Doc full of wild new tax ideas and no clear plans to review spending. What a shocker. – Chicago Tribune*

“The City Council’s mad scramble for new revenue sources, just getting underway per the orders of Mayor Brandon Johnson, is shaping up to be a spectacle that should embarrass City Hall. It won’t, of course, because of the ideology of this administration, which reflexively equates higher government spending with progress on social ills and the wealth redistribution it seeks.”

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Who could replace Biden? – Politico

“Among the Democrats’ bench of potential candidates who didn’t participate in the 2020 primaries, a group of governors stand out — California’s Gavin Newsom, Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, Illinois’ J.B. Pritzker, Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro and Maryland’s Wes Moore.”

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The school choice wave will eventually hit Illinois, we just have to fight for it. – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio

Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss the automatic hike in Illinois’ gas tax, how much more Illinoisans pay for basic services, the fact that so many school systems are filled with bloated administrations, the growth in state and local bureaucracies, the fact that school choice – and especially universal programs – are spreading across the nation, and more.

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