Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about the irresponsible spending of Chicago and CPS, the fact that Mayor Johnson is breaking his promise to not raise property taxes, why so many businesses and people that are fleeing Illinois, why we can’t push solutions until politicians recognize the state’s problems, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Pritzker Administration repeats its mother of all whoppers: ‘Illinois is not losing people’
- Fresh unemployment numbers for September: Illinois still has nation’s 3rd-worst rate
- The Chicago Teachers Union’s fingerprints are all over Acero’s closing schools and dismal results
- Illinoisans should watch out for the next try at a progressive income tax on the November ballot
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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.
It would be illogical for any small to mid sized business to start up in Illinois given the overall business environment. The patient will bleed out over the next twenty years due to lack of blood(businesses).
The pols know the problems, yet they get paid regardless. Their friends at social services, in the judicial system etc. make their living off the problems. “Don’t kill the job” a friend at Com Ed once advised me.
Everyone focuses on the larger companies, but closely held businesses in Illinois have been suffering for years. The democrats and their union alter egos, killed manufacturing in Illinois long ago. But the high tax, high regulation Illinois environment, prevented Illinois small businesses from ever fully recovering from the 2008 recession. Then came the idiocy of COVID. So many small business people who survived 2008 just said “to hell with it” and either closed shop, retired or sold to larger companies that took the customers but not the employees. They took their money and moved to Florida or some other rational… Read more »
Maybe that’s the plan all along. Remember Lex Luther on Superman? He was buying up property along the Nevada border and after California slid into the ocean he has hundreds of miles of beach property. The pols seem to want to get out as many people as possible and takeover properties and land and reward their close allies.