Ted Dabrowski appeared on The Perri Small Show to discuss the nine facts Gov. Pritzker didn’t tell Illinoisans about the 2023 budget. For one thing, Illinois is going to need 19 more credit upgrades just to get back to where it was under Gov. Quinn.
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How is it that Quinn kept getting credit ratings downgrades with the 5% state income tax rate and JB got upgraded? The only new revenue stream is marijuana and the taxes around the BBB program. Quinn actually had smaller pension payments to make. In fact, I don’t think Illinois has been downgraded since the state income tax reverted back to 5% in July 2017. All of Rauner’s downgrades were due to GA gifting him an expiring tax rate.
The only difference I can see is federal dollars.
Illinois/Chicago (#1-2 in overall tax burden; #1-2 in political corruption; #51, behind Puerto Rico in fiscal condition;)…. …..two things has to happen to stop the collapse of Illinois: (1) hit public union sector remuneration hard, especially retirement pensions and retirement medical and (2) adopt (for real) tough political ethics/corruption reforms ….these two items are the root cause of most of the strife for non public union taxpayers in Ill….if not addressed, (1) incumbents, both dems and reps, should be voted out of office and (2) residents, and especially at least their children, should continue to flee the state until the… Read more »
Each of the things you want is a huge mountain to climb. Climbing both is that much less likely in the near-to-midterm future at least. You seem to want it all. Maybe your goals should be a little more achieveably stated.
Its “go time” for non public union taxpayers in Illinois. They are older, so parents often dead. Most have begged their kids not to live in Illinois, to avoid the catastrophe we have endured. Remote work and related tools enabled. Yes, home prices, cause they are used as collateral for the 7 figure Illinois public pensions, have drastically under-performed most of the rest of the country, are huge handcuffs–but we will shake that off. The legislative looting of our assets has not been incremental, its time the responses by our legislators, finally, is not incremental (peanuts). No longer acceptable. Illinois/Chicago… Read more »
Responding “quickly” isn’t in the tarot cards. Quickly is more likely “eventually.”
We’ll get around to it when we feel like it? Meanwhile, the dumpster fire continues to burn…
Seems like you are on the right track. “We’ll think about it” is the political ploy of the current era.