Illinois committed temporary covid aid toward long-term spending on Human Services. Now it’s trapped. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss Gov. Pritzker’s sad attempt at humor, his dismissal of the Illinois counties voting to separate from the state, why the state’s downstate counties have a desire and need for representation, the potential of bringing DOGE to Illinois, the potential for a statewide tax hike, the fight against the Dexter Reed settlement, and more.

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Daskoterzar
1 year ago

Trapped? oh, Come on, decisions can be made to fix anything…just need the stones to stop and change spending. But we know, the fat man has no stones and nobody else is going to speak up…so we go merrily on the way to bankruptcy, with our elected officials blaming everyone else and no one taking any responsibility.

Ex Illini
1 year ago

This is all on Pritzker. All of it.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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