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
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.
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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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.