Ted joined Newsmax to discuss the Walmart’s decision to shut half of its Chicago stores. The company’s decision, Ted says, was likely driven by the city’s growing crime, high taxes and political dysfunction. He also says its actually good that Democrats will hold their national convention in Chicago – the rest of the nation will see first hand the policies that are destroying the city.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Walmart’s flight from Chicago: ‘Corporate racism?’ Or crime, taxes and dysfunction?
- What Chicago requires immediately is deterrence. Stop the bleed. Fast.
- Chicago’s pursuit of ‘criminal justice reform’ an utter failure: Windy City homicides top nation for 11th year in a row with crime still rising.
- More cops on Chicago’s streets won’t help until criminals are prosecuted and sentenced
- It will take exceptional political courage to end Chicago’s ‘crisis of values.’ Good luck
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.
I just hope those Youths have one more riot in them for the occasion.
Just run news reels from the 1968 fiasco that would pretty much sum up democratic conventions in Chicago.
At least in 1968 those hippies were against the war and against the draft. In retrospect, I might have been a hippy back then too if it meant being shipped off to fight some stupid foreign war for useless Democrat presidents. Yet, they still all voted Democrat. Never forget, it was Nixon that ended the Democrat’s draft and no Democrat today ever gives him credit for that. I’m not really sure what Democrats are going to riot about in 2024. The entire George Floyd riots were based on a lie that black men were disproportionately murdered police. I almost expect… Read more »
The Democrats are what’s known as AHotMess
To steal a malapropism from Mayor Daley, Toni P and Brandon would be taken at their word if they said, “The prosecutor isn’t there to create disorder, the prosecutor is there to preserve disorder.”