Your property taxes pay for government workers’ guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions while you get no such guarantees – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss why Illinois’ property taxes are such a national outlier, why Illinoisans are forced to pay the high, guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions of the government class, why Illinoisans aren’t getting their money’s worth for what they pay, the teachers unions’ influence over elections, and more.
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
A few middle manager schmucks at ComEd will take the fall, and Madigan will stay and get off. Offering a bribe is illegal in Illinois, but a Pol accepting a bribe is perfectly fine here.
Wait and see folks, Madiscam has a lot of strings to pull
Madigan will be reelected IL House speaker. No doubt. He controls the IL Democrat money and anyone who votes against him will receive the Ken Dunkin treatment.
Wouldn’t it be priceless for the Republicans to put him back in charge and let the Democrats wear the mantle for a couple more years…
I’m sure there’s some that can be bought, we’ve seen it before.
As long as Madigan hold the purse strings on the Democrat party cash hoard I wouldn’t count him out on anything.
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Was at that concert at Arie Crown Theater April 19,1972. Emerson running up and down the aisles playing a portable keyboard. Those were the days.
Yes sir they were the good old days.
I doubt it was that concert since that album (Brain Salad Surgery) wasn’t released until Nov. 1973. However, It might have been the Soldiers Field concert in the summer of 1977 I went to. They were amazing. No running with a portable keyboard although he was strapped into an organ than spun him around and around upside down
ya may have are years wrong after all it was a long time ago, but it is good to see that there is still a group of folks that still remember the good old days in life. Rock on dude.
…and the Reds do. Who the f*** cares?
It’s time to get out.
The smart ones already left.