Ted joined Amy Jacobson and Chris Krok to outline what residents should expect from the new taxes taking effect on July 1st, why the changes signal deeper problems in the state’s direction under Gov. Pritzker, Pritzker’s general lack of support nationwide, and more.
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Poor JB. All those billions and he’s permanently stuck in Illinois. The best is that he knows he’s a failure that can never rise above being the governor of a cornfield. He never wanted to be the governor of a cornfield, it was just a stepping stone to a national office. That was his goal but now he knows he’ll never achieve it. Just another governor of a cornfield on a long list of governors of the Illinois cornfields. He thought his billions would separate him from all the others, but his billions turned out to be meaningless. Imagine having… Read more »
Let’s hope. It is up to all of us to make that so.
Funny in a way that Pritzker is the lowest in the national polls yet the highest in Illinois’ election results. That alone says a lot about Illinois voters and the way things are in Illinois
Illinois, with Chicago in particular , is like a game of musical chairs and they don’t want the music to stop. But watch out when it does!
The heaviest anchor always sinks the deepest, and governor WIDE-LOAD is definitely the heaviest.
JB boasting about 7 balanced budgets in his administration! He’s more like a delusional child living in an imaginary world.
I always have a balanced budget. Unfortunately a few years the actual spending is greater than my income. I don’t give an F about budgets, so the actual income statements.
JB has $3.7 Billion of his daddy’s money to spend on his Presidential dream plus the virtue signaling leftist political statements, media appearances and unconstitutional laws paid by the taxpayers of Illinois. I hope that JB spends every last penny on his dream. Media can be purchased. Politicians can be purchased (he already owns every IL Democrat) and votes can be purchased, stolen, cheated and manipulated. Karmella burned through $1Billion in four months. That rate gives JB nearly 16 months of spending. A post election penniless JB Pritzker loser would be the greatest possible gift he could ever give to… Read more »
Guessing the down vote is from either Rich Miller or Shia Kapos. Both think that they can ride JB’s coat tails to Washington for nationwide fame and fortune.
Well, it’s easy to sit on the bottom of pool when……………
2% nationally and yet he will handily win reelection in IL. Who’s going to run against him, Jim Oberweis or Bob Fioretti?
Illinois GOP really doesn’t like to put up competitive candidates. Running candidates that oppose abortion in cases of rape and incest probably won’t win over the majority of Illinois voters no matter how bad the democrats behave. I’m not questioning Bailey’s position of right vs wrong but merely pointing out that the majority of Illinois voters will punish any candidate that takes that position. Rauner, Edgar and Thompson all supported abortion rights. Even Governor Ryan, who was considered pro life, believed in exceptions for rape and incest. He also went against his own party and vetoed legislation that would have… Read more »
The 2024 national election also showed that defund da police, open borders, paying for illegals medical care, letting biological males compete against biological females in athletic events, climate craziness, etc. won’t get Dems elected either.
Abortion was not even a Top10 issue in the 2024 election.
Time to get with it PPF!!
We are saying the same thing. Stick to the 80/20 issues if you want to win elections. That’s what Trump did and he won. During the last election (IL GOV) abortion was an issue because of SCOTUS and democrats were able to feed on that issue. When they asked Bailey for his position he stated that no exception should be allowed for rape and incest and that sealed his fate. Since you brought up Trump’s 2024 election, even though the discussion was about the Illinois election, what did Trump do to make this a non-issue? He backed away from discussions… Read more »
National politics are quite different from Illinois. If we want any chance of winning the governorship again, we have to have someone who is more moderate. MAGA isn’t going to win a statewide election. That’s just the hard facts.
Agreed! Gotta run a moderate in Illinois.
There used to be a beloved Republican Lake Co. Board Chairman I always believed would one day be Governor. He did a fantastic job – and it didn’t hurt that he was handsome, young, gay, and very approachable. Ultimately, his time ended in personal scandal (I believe his political career could have recovered had he been brutally honest… probs didn’t want to get back into politics anyway). I often think of him and wish there were someone with his appeal that would emerge. I just cannot imagine who that would be.
Oberweis is running for Congress in Florida, his home state.
I know, I was joking about two serial gadfly candidates in the absence of any serious candidates.
Well, JB wasn’t “at the bottom” in the poll I saw…
He was actually at 2%, while some guy named Rahm Emanuel was at 1%. 🙂
YES, but that same poll had 2% going to “SOMEBODY ELSE”. Meaning No one in particular. Anything under 10% is a number that means don’t run for student body president buddy, you ain’t liked all that much. LOL
Illinois ranked last in the US due to 50 years of Madigan and this clown.
Now he want to fix what’s been broken for the last 7 years like real-estate taxes, just what was he waiting for. Mandatory School District consolidations and eliminating townships would be a great start.
Neither of which will ever happen so long as Governor “ Giveaway “ Guttman, “ Tax Whitey “ mayor Homie, “ “Guaranteed Income “ Taxwinkle and others that throw taxpayers around like a Rottweiler does a rag doll are in office.