Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer talking to Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson about the Civic Committee’s latest budget proposal. The committee wants to hit Illinoisans with $6 billion in new taxes – in part by taxing retirements and by raising sales taxes on services.
Ted pointed out that none of the corporate titans on the committee would ever pour their own money into a business as dysfunctional, bloated and mismanaged as the state of Illinois, yet they’re demanding that struggling Illinoisans do so.
Read Wirepoint’s full reaction to the Civic Committee’s proposal: DOA: The Civic Committee’s New Budget Proposal Will Get No Support – And Shouldn’t
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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.
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all the guys on the civic committee are bulletproof. 1% raise here or there, they don’t care. Heck, raise their property taxes by 50% and they wouldn’t blink. out of touch with the commoners is the problem and their thought that public pensioners are “owed” the money. the social contract was broken a long time ago by politicians that used the system for patronage.