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“The debts aren’t going anywhere, but the people are.” – Ted Dabrowski on Newsradio WJPF
Ted talked with Tom Miller of WJPF Radio about all the tax and fee hikes that were a part of the 2020 budget state budget and the massive $45 billion infrastructure bill. Some of those hikes have been in place since July, but even more are going to be imposed come January 1st of next year.
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Dismal 2019 numbers show why Illinois pensions will continue to fail
The Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability’s special pension report released this week shows yet again how strong markets and ever-more taxpayer funds can’t fix the flaws in the state’s politician-run pension system.
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Expect property tax hikes to hit Chicago’s stagnant home prices hard
Don’t be surprised if Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ends up hiking property taxes multiple times during her term. That should scare Chicago homeowners. Chicago already sits at the bottom of the 20-city Case-Shiller Index – a leading measure of U.S. home prices – with only Cleveland and Detroit home values performing worse since 2000.
Does anyone even read sun-times editorials? Hahahaha print media trying to adapt to a digital age, and still, few even care.
“Should Illinois close its public universities? Should it slash state aid to public schools, abandoning school districts for poor kids that have little property wealth to tax?”
Um, we’re spending over $3B per year on higher ed. How exactly would some cuts shut down the entire system? And there will be no abandoning poor school districts. Rather, the state would abandon the suburban school entirely (they’re already dangerously close), thereby enraging voters already spending well over $10,000 in property taxes.
“nobody is seriously arguing that the extra $3.4 billion in revenue would solve all the state’s financial problems, certainly not in short order. The point is to move in the right direction…”
“Move” LOL. They’re admitting this is just the start and that all rates will be raised immediately after passage. Can’t believe they printed that. Way to tip your hand, CFL.
Can anybody point me to who is on the Sun-Times editorial board? Who writes their editorials?
Mark–these are the folk st list as thier editorial board (seem like lightweights?). But this piece seems like it could have been writen by miller or cfl itself..back in 2017 when new ‘coalition’ took over st they promised a firewall between editorial writers and cfl. Who knows,,artical seems aimed at you, wp, ipi, and the few of us–why are they so concerned if tax is such a great idea??
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials
Classic FUD strategy. Also, I seem to recall reading once that Boss Mike has a sizable interest in the CST. Any truth to that?
Miller is far more skillful, far more clever. This article is pathetic on so many levels.
Miller’s writing style is passive-aggressive. If you’re the type to toe the company line and thus already inclined to buy what he’s indirectly selling, he can be persuasive.