Recent Wirepoints Originals
Don’t be fooled by claims that a progressive income tax for Illinois would mean property tax relief – Wirepoints Original
Their proposed income tax will reportedly bring in just $3.6 billion in new revenue, an amount that would be swallowed immediately by the state’s projected $3.4 billion budget deficit, leaving virtually nothing for property tax relief or any other promises.
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Stonewalled Again on Savings Claimed from Illinois Pension Buyout Program – Wirepoints Original
The latest in bipartisan baloney on Illinois pension buyouts.
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Illinois spends 30 to 50 percent more than its neighbors on education, but results don’t budge
In a nutshell: Illinois spends far more than its neighbors on education and yet its politicians are committed to spending hundreds of millions of dollars more every year. All to achieve student outcomes that haven’t improved in a decade and are, in most cases, worse than in neighboring states.
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Why Nobody But Bond Buyers Should Like Chicago’s Latest Deal – Wirepoints Original
The toddlin’ continued for now, but the music can’t go on forever.
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Wirepoints’ Monthly Crain’s Article: Chicago doubling down on dangerous ‘securitized bonds’
The losers in Chicago's bond scheme may end up being taxpayers, service recipients, public pensioners and everybody else except the muni bond community—bondholders, underwriters, bankers and lawyers.
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.