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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
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Colorado just passed a property tax cap. Forced the state legislature to agree to the cap by threatening to put property tax cap initiatives on the November ballot.
It’s not that hard just takes some will and organizing.
Property Tax | Colorado General Assembly
Good old Pat Quinn. He loves himself some tax increases. Hey Pat, remember when you doubled the tolls across the Illinois toll roads? That’s right, old Pat couldn’t raise those tolls by 10, or even 20 percent. Nope, Patty boy had to go for the full 100% increase. That’s a tax right on the backs of working class Illinois residents, not to mention businesses, which just raised prices to cover the cost. And that plan worked like a charm, as the road construction crews have been busy non stop tearing up every toll road since. The Tri State has been… Read more »
Ah yes, Pat. You’re the Governor that gave us an income tax hike with promises of rainbows and unicorns that somehow just didn’t happen. So you see Pat you fall into the category in that old saying of “fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.” Illinois politicians, even you Pat, are not to be trusted when it comes to taxes.
As with the gas tax which supposedly was an iron clad earmark to fix roads and bridges only before Pritzker dog robbed it to prop up the failing CTA, there are zero guarantees that the 3% millionaire tax will actually be spent on lowering property tax.
No new taxes of any sort till meaningful spending reforms – cut the pork and waste and union featherbedding. Lean IL out, way out.
Say ‘NO’ to the latest bait and switch.
Quinn seems to be an honest do gooder. But his plan is naive in that any such increase in revenue will simply fund other spending ideas cooked up by the Democrat controlled legislature, like the lottery was supposed to help fund education. New tax revenue will be rerouted from its intended purpose. His tax proposal isn’t much different than Pritzker’s “fair tax” and drive more successful people out of Illinois. He says nothing of tax relief from cutting the budget.