While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss the university student protests erupting across the nation on the Israel/Palestine conflict, why it’s so dangerous for society if the media abandons facts in favor of narratives, why that allows government to spin away the problems like crime and financial crises, why it causes the voting public to become apathetic, and more.
When you hear the complaints from Illinois politicians, remember the hypocrisy: 40,000 bused to Chicago, but 161,562 allowed to fly directly to Florida.
Nearly one year ago, Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s removal from office. In her place was Brandon Johnson, who promised a more inclusive approach to building a “better, stronger, safer Chicago.” It hasn’t turned out that way. Today, there’s little disagreement that Mayor Johnson has disappointed on most key issues. On crime. On policing. On migrants. On education. On governance. Even on foreign affairs.
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Don’t all these “tricks” deny the federal government the necessary revenues needed to support programs like medicaid and welfare? I thought the progressive’s argument was that more taxes were needed. Now those well-to-do taxpayers in blue states are seeking out loopholes to pay less taxes?! Seems counter-intuitive to their professed political beliefs.
You thought WRONG. The new tax plan puts the tax burden on progressive states meanwhile uneducated poor republican states like Mississippi West Virginia Tennessee Alabama live like maggots off the educated hard working high earning progressive states
Couldn’t the same be said for how Illinois’ state income taxes are allocated? The taxpayers in my Chicago suburb contribute far more in tax dollars than they receive, just like those progressive states. As a result, we’re forced to pay even higher property taxes to fund our schools, among other things. What do you think of all the “uneducated poor” – as you call them – from Chicago’s south suburbs to Cairo and all the poor farm towns in between that can’t fund their own schools and are reliant on my tax dollars for their education and social services? They… Read more »
Bingo, Nixit. The progressives aren’t so progressive when it comes to the poor who don’t vote their way with a knee jerk. Just deplorables.