Ted Dabrowski appeared on The Perri Small Show to discuss how people in Southern Cook County continue to take a beating from the failed policies of lawmakers. Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 25, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
As long as people in southern Cook continue to elect criminals like Gus Savage, Mel Reynolds, and Jesse Jackson Junior, they are emphatically choosing their fate.
The federal government transitioned years ago from defined benefit (Civil Service) to defined contribution (Federal Employees Retirement System). Illinois could do the same.
The financially worst municipalities in suburban Chicago are African-American dominated. Why is that? Just askin’…
Most heavily relied on manufacturing that moved overseas.
An underfunded defined benefit pension is a Ponzi scheme. Underfunded retiree healthcare is a Ponzi scheme. Converting certain southwest Cook County suburbs from Republican to Democrat was one of the keys to Michael Madigan’s historic reign as House Speaker. The free money incentives the government is providing for home ownership is a problem for many that have no way to forecast their tax bill. The free money should come with a financial and debt analysis and projection of all the local,county, state, and Federal governments for each tax paid by the the homeowner. That is an almost impossible task at… Read more »