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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The future of Illinois might be a populace of dumbed down individuals living on public assistance and voting lockstep with the Illinois Democrats that will trade the State’s electoral votes for the party that promises the most public welfare. The dumbed down population will also be utilized by the Democrat trial lawyers that rely on uneducated easily influenced individuals to make up jury pools as they do their best to sue American companies out of existence. This is not so far fetched because all one needs to do is see what happened in Madison and St Claire counties over the… Read more »
My experience is that, at any given time, the legislative in-basket is filled to overflowing with special interest bills from both left- and right-leaning legislators. I do not suppose that legislators have minds of their own to concoct this crap, but they often accommodate contributors and special interest groups by agreeing to sponsor nonsense legislation. I recall an interval in Michigan where there was a shift in power from Dems to Republicans and that coincided with election of a Republican governor. At that time, a s**t-load of gun bills and pseudo-patriotic pledge-of-allegiance and flag-burning legislation got the liberal press inflamed.… Read more »
Fast forward 10 years.
No employer will want to hire any of these ‘box of rocks.’
IL solution will be to drive the employers out.
Looney
“If discrimination including microagressions are perceived, then all CPS stakeholders must report to OSP/EOCO.”
Have they not read the instagrams/facebook/twitters of their BIPOC students? It’s the worst racist, homophobic/anti-trans stuff available anywhere these days. But for the quality of the English, it’s like going back to 1950’s Mississippi or something. Totally un-PC.
these progressives don’t think things through
How do you possibly infuse this garbage into a Calculus class is my question?
Goebbels would be proud.