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Undocumented workers in Illinois pay an estimated $900 million in federal taxes and $700 million in state and local taxes, according to the latest report from the American Immigration Council. At a recent rally in Pilsen, several of those workers took to the stage to share their stories — and, for some, their heartache — in hopes that officials recognize their economic contribution and put them back on the agenda. Many cried, holding signs with the number of years that they have been working in the country without a job permit: 17, 20, 29, 30, 33.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Biden can’t remember what he had for breakfast, he forgot about these people a long time ago.
The immigrants are the Face of the New Chicago. Most a good hard working family people, just trying to earn a living like the rest of us.
Sure, except they cheat on their taxes, don’t pay for car or health insurance, have higher crime rates than most natives, have illegitimate children at twice the national average, and remit substantial parts of their earnings back home.
NO MORE IMMIGRANTS.