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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Good article, but short of the state declaring bankruptcy I don’t see how either Rauner or JB can fix the unfunded pension liability. I know exactly how JB wants to, but that will drive what businesses haven’t left the state, out of the state. Caterpillar is a half hour drive to O’Hare, where they could load the whole company on a couple of planes and fly to Texas. I found it extremely interesting they chose to rent, rather than buy when they relocated.
Agreed. It’s too late. This is about disaster mitigation now, though Pritzker would speed the collapse.