If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Lawmakers conveniently ignore the full impact of inflation when it comes to ordinary Illinoisans. Take the personal exemption on the state income tax. For tax year 2023, the exemption will not rise with inflation as it should under current law. And that means a higher tax bill for everyone.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
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The entire article is truly backwards progressive thinking. The problem with ComEd is the corruption that comes from one man from Springfield named Mike Magidan. They are both members of the same political party, Democrats. But this truly naive alderman, Daniel La Spata, thinks that its better for corrupt Chicago government to take over ComEd instead of fixing the problem, which is actual criminal corruption in Springfield. The articles cites the water dept and the Chicago Transit Authority as examples of government run public services. Except the article fails to mention the inconvenient fact that the water department loses 10%… Read more »