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Ted joined Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur to talk about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Affirmative Action and how this can affect both the private and public sector in Illinois, why gas is expensive dues to taxes and where that money is going, why people are voting with their feet as Illinois continues to lose residents, and more.
To listen, click on Thursday, July 6, 2023 Podcast Hour 2
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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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When I cross the Poplar street bridge in St Louis to Illinois I immediately can feel the road differences. Gasoline is cheaper in Missouri because of the tax situation and yet Missouri has better roads. Go figure.
Absolutely! That’s the case in all of the surrounding states and many of the states folks have moved to. Nearly everything is cheaper outside the state. The reality is that the state and all of these bodies of government including Chicago and Cook, are a massive vacuum cleaner of all tax revenues and it’s that big sucking sound (Little Ross Perot for you) which siphons off everything to serve the biggest most corrupt areas of the state. Absolutely mind blowing that they just continue to amp up the spending and then refuse to make any prudent financial decisions. Other people’s… Read more »
Illinois Is Using Your Gas Tax Dollars For $10B In Failed Public Transit Boondoggles, And Millions More For Bike Lane Boondoggles — For The Less Than 1 Pct Of Illinois Residents Who Commute By Bike – Capitol News Illinois
Last report was $2.2 billion in gas tax revenues for 2022. New taxes for 2023 will make total around $2.5 billion. The roads around my area are in sad shape. Where is all this money going? Clouted firms, relatives, political donors, pay to play contractors. The Illinois Tollway is another story. Tollway contracts to repair I90/39 bridges in the Rockford area resulted in closures and delays, a bridge on Rockton Rd had pot holes 3 months later. Elevator Rd as well. Try and contact the tollway to complain or speak to someone, impossible. No responsibility, no answers and nobody cares.
Everywhere I go I see road construction. I drove just over 20 miles the other day and encountered 7 different road construction projects. The toll roads are a completely different issue. Those are all under construction too, and that’s obviously a completely different funding beast. What a racket.
Sales tax is the big killer. The state should’ve capped the sales tax at $2/gal when they doubled the gas tax. That way, when gas prices get to $4-5/gal, the impact isn’t compounded.
Who knows where the money is going? Certainly not to improve the roads.
Most likely improves bank balances in the Cayman Islands.