Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list, including $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools. Among the reasons his demand should be categorically rejected: the growing rate of CPS teachers simply not showing up to school.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about a new law passed by the Democratic supermajority and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that results in brazen election interference, keeping Republicans off ballots; about a referendum that tests the waters for a renewed progressive income tax hike; about how the Parental Notification referendum question was knocked off the ballot; and why laws like that pass so easily.
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I voted no because Dems lie all the time. Sooner later it will be tax the middle class because the rich moved out of state
Wow so much to unload on here. Publication called Jacobin after the perpetrators of the Reign of Terror of the French revolution? They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Rauner left the state a mess? I guess 30 years of Madigan doesn’t count. Pritzker the would-be saviour, but the people of Illinois are too dumb to understand? Please spare me!
The defeat of the so called “fair” tax is the first nail in the coffin where JB’s political career will rest. The sooner the better.
They forgot how the Dictator who lead the fight for the Blank Check Amendment committed tax fraud by removing the toilets from one of his mansions
Author Ryan.
Illinois doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending problem.
Me thinks the author tis a hypocrite. Mr. Griffin paid roughly $75,000,000 in state taxes last year. I imagine the author of this slanted piece of shit paid a few grand at best. The current tax system is fair you ungrateful clown.
I most certainly like your post name, you are not alone I’m in the same boat
Thank you Ken Griffin.