Wirepoints’ Matt Rosenberg joined WXAN radio host Will Stephens to talk about the “mass “incarceration” myth that’s promoted in Illinois and across the nation. He points out that less than 0.56 percent of the adult population are in jail, and even when those on parole or probation are added the total share is still less than 2 percent.
Your property taxes pay for government workers’ guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions while you get no such guarantees – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss why Illinois’ property taxes are such a national outlier, why Illinoisans are forced to pay the high, guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions of the government class, why Illinoisans aren’t getting their money’s worth for what they pay, the teachers unions’ influence over elections, and more.
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.
You think half a percent is small? Are you kidding? Is a half – percent of anything no big deal? What if 1 out of every 200 airplanes crashed? Would that not be a serious crisis for aviation? The adult population essentially generates 100% of GDP. So, in dollar terms, one half of a percent of adults behind bars is over 1 trillion dollars in production lost per year – not to mention the trade-offs in consumption incarceration forces us to make. I get that you guys are tough on crime and object to the decarceration policy of many liberal… Read more »
Why do the lefties push the mass incarceration narrative if it’s not true? How come it takes Wirepoints to expose this? If journalism is so corrupt and lazy, why don’t any of our politicians use their bully pulpit to actually tell the truth? Why do they all insult our collective intelligences? What doe Soros have to gain from prosecutors who are “soft on crime”? Why do Dem pols and elites decry “systemic racism” and Push the incarceration narrative when most of the murders in Chicago are Black men being killed by other black men? Why are drugs allowed to be… Read more »