Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
April 16, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/14/2024.
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$30 million over four years: How teachers unions influence Illinois politicians. – Wirepoints
April 15, 2024
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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.
One tricky way Illinois politicians are hiking your taxes – Wirepoints
April 13, 2024
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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.
We must focus on cutting the cost drivers of Illinois property taxes if we’re ever going to deliver relief to taxpayers – Wirepoints testifies to the IL House Revenue and Finance Committee 4.10.24
April 11, 2024
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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.
Pensions are the single biggest finance problem Chicago has…and it’s only getting worse – Wirepoints on WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show
April 11, 2024
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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.
Jabba expects $170,000,000 year in sales tax from cannabis. Let’s see, at 11 mil a week, at PEAK demand, with lines that are hours long, and they ran out of supply, times 50 weeks is $572,000,000 in sales, and assuming, optimistically, 33% taxes that’s $190,000,000 in revenue. So yeah, maybe. But that assumes crazy, line out the door waiting every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to reach $500,000,000 in gross revenues, at the current stores. Sure they’re supposed to approve more dispensaries, but we’ll see, we’ll see. Everything seems too optimistic.