Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer talking to Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson about the Civic Committee’s latest budget proposal. The committee wants to hit Illinoisans with $6 billion in new taxes – in part by taxing retirements and by raising sales taxes on services.
Ted pointed out that none of the corporate titans on the committee would ever pour their own money into a business as dysfunctional, bloated and mismanaged as the state of Illinois, yet they’re demanding that struggling Illinoisans do so.
Read Wirepoint’s full reaction to the Civic Committee’s proposal: DOA: The Civic Committee’s New Budget Proposal Will Get No Support – And Shouldn’t
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
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all the guys on the civic committee are bulletproof. 1% raise here or there, they don’t care. Heck, raise their property taxes by 50% and they wouldn’t blink. out of touch with the commoners is the problem and their thought that public pensioners are “owed” the money. the social contract was broken a long time ago by politicians that used the system for patronage.