Ted joined Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur to talk about how Illinois’ prohibition of Right to Work may crush lawmakers dreams to be a leader in EV manufacturing, what else drives companies away from Illinois, why the media is hiding the true extent of Chicago’s crime numbers and more.
To listen, click on Thursday, January 5, 2023 Podcast Hour 2
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Belvidere auto plant closing looks like another blow to Illinois ‘reimagining electric vehicles’ industrial policy
- Electric Vehicle Makers ask Pritzker To Outlaw Their Competition
- Rivian stock price collapse, potential brownouts, highlight the danger of Illinois lawmakers picking winners and losers.
- The special interest smorgasbord inside Illinois lawmakers’ 800-page-plus green energy behemoth
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.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/10/tesla-plans-to-spend-more-than-770-million-on-texas-factory-expansion.html
We need more subsidies from the IL taxpayers to change that 0 for 18 to a Dimaggio-type streak!
It is not Illinois fault that almost everywhere else looks so much better, or is it???
I think the bigger picture with Illinois Amendment 1is it was originally intended to apply to public and private sec workers and was in reality cooked up by national dem/labor unions to serve as test run for other blue states to follow and was very much supposed to go hand-in-hand with Bidden admins- PRO ACT (which narrowly didn’t pass–thanks to Manchin/ Sinama) to create some kind of workers union paradise fantasy world with endless fed covid/MMT /QE $bucks. But covid & QE are over and we are heading for possibly years of recession. So now what Illinoisans got stuck with… Read more »
And now the state is about to run all of the state’s gun and gun part manufacturers out of state too. SMARTS!!!
Wonder why electric car makers are avoiding Illinois – could it be: — the most business hostile laws/regulations in America; — the most burdensome tax structures/tax rates in the US; — a failing educational system at all levels; — the worst fiscal basket case among all 50 states; — out of control crime/soft on crime Democrats that have made law and order impossible; — crooked and corrupt unions that have a stranglehold on government; — the worst corruption of any state/one party misrule; — a Democrat state energy suicide pact that will give Illinois 3rd world power blackouts; and last… Read more »