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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"And now the pension crisis, in Springfield and locally, is spinning off other problems. The Illinois Exodus is more than a population issue. It is pillaging many Illinoisans’ greatest asset: the value of their homes."
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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.
Garbage in, garbage out. “And now the pension crisis, in Springfield and locally, is spinning off other problems. The Illinois Exodus is more than a population issue. It is pillaging many Illinoisans’ greatest asset: the value of their homes.” 50 years of rampant credit inflation pushed asset prices into orbit, and houses are no exception. It is an incalculable error to see houses as “investments.” Ever wonder why real estate sales commissions are so high? Because houses are unique, like selling heirloom jewelry only worse. Such assets are vulnerable to utterly illiquid markets if there’s a downturn, so counting on… Read more »
So how many incompetent and corrupt public officials have over the years been endorsed by this B.S. publication? I guess they need to fill the space some how with rhetoric such as this. To the average ignoramus, it gives the appearance of credibility.
The words of the Fake News Chicago Tribune are wasted electrons. The trib is so blind to see that the exodus is planned. This is exact what our leaders want. They know exactly what they are doing. They are purposely draining the state of the middle class (Which vote Republican) and are actively trying to replace them with illegal immigrants. It’s a redux of california – where the middle class left and all that are left are the rich and the poor. As VDH calls it, California is America’s Third World State. This is the definition of their progressive uptopia… Read more »
I forgot to add that they’ve already proposed not letting pregnant individuals leave the state to visit surrounding states – ‘ for their own safety’. They’d throw us all in reeducation camps if they could.
The “other” explanation is that the public long ago learned it could vote for the parasite-politician who promised them the most loot, and collectively, people are too stupid to see that robbing their fellow citizens turns into a vertical dive when everyone does it.
Voting (democracy) works only as long as you can confront the other guy across the table who is trying to force you to pay for his anchovie pizza. Scale it up beyond literally a few hundred people and it will always eventually collapse itself. Illinois is just further along the road to ruin than some.