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Ted joined Jeff Daly to talk about the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” initiative on the November ballot, the latest on why Illinois can expect an electricity crisis, why Trump is right to criticize the bad policies and dismal outcomes in blue cities like Chicago, and more.
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Fat chance. Do you really think the unions that own the democrats will let that happen?
While you’re at it, consolidate suburban school districts so you’re not paying double the administration salaries.
Park districts another entity that could stand to be trimmed down. City officials, township officials, county officials and state officials all to keep an eye out for hunters, people breaking the curfew and other untoward behavior.
We moved to Tennessee a few years ago from Illinois and their schools are consolidated by County thus saving millions of dollars per year. In fact, most southern school districts do this. Huge reason property taxes down here are 20% of Illinois.
Florida has school districts by county as well. They have about 70 school districts total to Illinois’ 650+ school districts. Think of the billions saved annually by consolidation.