If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Lawmakers conveniently ignore the full impact of inflation when it comes to ordinary Illinoisans. Take the personal exemption on the state income tax. For tax year 2023, the exemption will not rise with inflation as it should under current law. And that means a higher tax bill for everyone.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
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Again, I can only chuckle. I mentioned in a prior comment my “dim” view of the Illinois legislature. One person was offended that I could possibly come to this conclusion about all of them in one broad stroke. The truth is that I don’t have to wait long or work hard to prove my point. I can just wait for the latest Wirepoints article! I don’t know if the people in our legislature are just woefully incognizant of general civics, or if they are just such partisan hacks that they couldn’t care less. I imagine it’s the former for many… Read more »
Newspapers endorse candidates all the time, this law can’t end that.
Maybe they ought to vote out the Republican with a true Republican in Geneva
Ironic, considering so many newspapers of the late 19th and 20th Centuries grew out of house publications of the various political parties. Good thing Martwick and Andersson weren’t around then.