Public records show Centro de Trabajadores Unidos, or the United Workers Center, received more than $3.6 million from the state of Illinois since 2015, most of that coming since 2023. “It's a situation where we have tax payers from Illinois paying for an organization that is actively impeding federal law, and they have a mission statement to do just that,” state Rep. Adam Niemerg said.
Illinois government taxes us and then uses our money to harm us.
9mm
4 months ago
I think I’ll write Centro de Trabajadores Unidos on the memo line of my property tax checks this year.
daskoterzar
4 months ago
Is it any wonder why Citizens of Illinois do not trust or believe government – ever? $3.5M dollars of our tax dollars taken from us in every aspect of life in Illinois…used for this? Turn Illinois RED.
Deb
4 months ago
Make using taxpayer funds illegal to fund political activist groups.
Last edited 4 months ago by Deb
Bobbi
4 months ago
Besides spreading the ideology, do they even have a legitimate purpose to grift our tax dollars?
Fed Up Taxpayer
4 months ago
And we wonder what the state does with our money?
The Railroader
4 months ago
George Soros doesn’t use his own $Billions to try and destabilize America. It has been said that his operatives learned how to scam the system and scam they did to the tune of Billions of dollars confiscated from taxpayers going to organizations with enmity for the United States. All these grifting NGOs are taxpayer supported. When DOGE audited USAID, they found so much rampant fraud and abuse of the system (Soros’ NGO grifters would say ‘use’ of the system) that the entire agency was shut down. After that, one could see a decline in the number of paid protesters with… Read more »
Chercher
4 months ago
This group isn’t just the tip of the iceberg, it’s just one group out of probably thousands the state and Chicago insist we must fund. To actively work against our own government.
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.
Illinois government taxes us and then uses our money to harm us.
I think I’ll write Centro de Trabajadores Unidos on the memo line of my property tax checks this year.
Is it any wonder why Citizens of Illinois do not trust or believe government – ever? $3.5M dollars of our tax dollars taken from us in every aspect of life in Illinois…used for this? Turn Illinois RED.
Make using taxpayer funds illegal to fund political activist groups.
Besides spreading the ideology, do they even have a legitimate purpose to grift our tax dollars?
And we wonder what the state does with our money?
George Soros doesn’t use his own $Billions to try and destabilize America. It has been said that his operatives learned how to scam the system and scam they did to the tune of Billions of dollars confiscated from taxpayers going to organizations with enmity for the United States. All these grifting NGOs are taxpayer supported. When DOGE audited USAID, they found so much rampant fraud and abuse of the system (Soros’ NGO grifters would say ‘use’ of the system) that the entire agency was shut down. After that, one could see a decline in the number of paid protesters with… Read more »
This group isn’t just the tip of the iceberg, it’s just one group out of probably thousands the state and Chicago insist we must fund. To actively work against our own government.