Illinoisans who moved out of state in the last decade owed a collective $600M worth of pension debt. That burden now shifts to Illinois households of the people who are left behind. Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski sits down with Scott Busboom and Doug Wolfe on WZUS in Decatur. They cover the new census data, redistricting, the state income tax grab, and pensions.
Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 7, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.