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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These 3 months have proven to Illinois companies that their white collar work gets done just as well with folks at home. So maybe those companies should close their Illinois office buildings? People can the move and work from anywhere. Screw Illinois.
Dumbing down, just as predicted.
The guy who knows how to run a buffet line, and little else, is questioning the judiciary? Really? JayBee, all you have done is seal the deal for those of us who, even in the face of a bit of pain on the real estate side, can leave! One can only wonder when the pensioneers will wake up to your strategy… Sadly, they will be the real losers in a state BK…
“Since the inception of this insanity, the following regulations, rules or consequences have occurred: I won’t get COVID if I get an abortion but I will get COVID if I get a colonoscopy….” – The Honorable Michael D McHaney, Chief Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Illinois. Contained in pages 75 – 76 of the 81 page proceedings report of the hearing held before Judge McHaney on May 22, 2020 in James Mainer and HCL Deluxe Tan vs. Governor Pritzker. As reported by Kirk Allen of Edgar County Watchdogs in the May 23, 2020 article titled, “Mainer v.… Read more »
Did anyone notice that lawmakers were considered non essential since they have been off for 2 months now but still getting paid. Maybe it’s better that we pay them not to show up. At least that way they can’t raise more tax’s and make laws that pertain to only a small % of the population.
But the judiciary are experts in our Constitutional rights, which is why these cases were brought in the first place. Because you haven’t followed the law as it’s written, and involved the legislature.
But I’ll remember your logic–Pritzker–next time you want to sue for any number of things I don’t like. I’ll just blithely inform you that the courts aren’t experts in __________ and tell you to pound sand.
Stay the course, eh Jay Bob?