Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski joined Scott Busboom and Doug Wolfe’s morning show on WZUS in Decatur. They went through the details of the Gov. Pritzker’s proposed 2023 budget, his supposed “tax relief” proposals and the reasons for Illinois’ recent credit upgrades.
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
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.
WGN or WLS would be smart to give Ted and Mark a one or two hour show once a week so people in the metro area can hear facts instead of the horse rap the local pols and the media peddles. Thank you for your service gentlemen. I know you don’t want to endorse candidates so can stay neutral, but I hope you interview those who will sit down with you and get their take on the state of the state and we can hear concrete proposals. Id be interested in your analysis of Paul Vallas many proposals. Are they… Read more »
And it will from the soaring interest rates.
Just like 1981.
It’s funny how they went Tier 2 (half of CPI which is a fake number) ponzi to Tier 1, and now even Tier 1 3% COLA is getting destroyed. But they do get paid 10x what they actually were worth or put in, so they still get away like the bandits we always knew they were.