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Wirepoints’ Ted Dabrowski joined Mary Ann Ahern of NBC 5 to discuss the details of the state’s new 2025 budget. Just as in years past, this was a budget for politicians, not people. Record spending fueled by over $700 million in tax hikes…and still no property or income tax relief for the state’s taxpayers.
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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
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Of course the budget doesn’t offer tax relief. The state needs more revenue not less for all the spending that the voters want.
The public sector unions have gamed the system and destroyed the quality of life for everyone else.
Your oblivious to all the harm you have done to families.
Isn’t it time we vote these dem garbage policies out and start enjoying our lives ?? Life is just to short for all the grief they throw at us!! And the constant tax increases for which we get nothing but LIP SERVICE and illegals!
Jumbo Belly meant to say 3.2% Bidenflation, not inflation. And bear in mind he wants to run for POTUS in 2028.
Congrats Ted, I guess…pathetic that 2:14 is all public gets for coverage of state budget on crappy network news.
But, maybe a good idea for WP piece would be to list where JB has increased budget by 32% since taking office and where are the accompanying 32% increase revenue sources since he continually claims ‘balanced budget”?