Ted joined Greg Bishop to discuss the state’s projected $5 billion annual deficits, why Gov. Pritzker is increasing spending even though the covid bailout money has finally run out, the massive increase in spending on human services and education, why tax hikes drive Illinoisans out of the state, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Pritzker’s new budgets forecast $3 billion to $5 billion deficits, make property tax relief from millionaire-tax ballot referendum unlikely
- Illinoisans should watch out for the next try at a progressive income tax on the November ballot
- City of Chicago budget revenues have ballooned by $6 billion since 2019. Why the $1 billion deficit?
- Don’t look now, but here come the tax hikes on Illinoisans
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
Simply put Pritzger doesn’t care. He’s very wealthy, very smug and doesn’t worry about the failed policies he and the cabal of leftist democrats have created. Again, Pritzger doesn’t care.
Really good, but with regard to just Chicago train-wreak notice JB keeps repeating criticism of city of Chicago budget when he states “you need make sure you haven’t put your ARPA dollars entirely into your operating budget”. Unbelievably, it’s still unclear what % of ARPA dollars are currently in operating budget that dopey taxpayers are now going to have to pay for. And of course nobody in press asks.
Pritzker needs those spending program so as to portray Illinois as a utopian land of milk and honey for the 2028 presidential elections. We, as Illinoisans, unfortunately have to pay for them so it will be the new graduated income tax or underfund the pension funds once again. Either way the spending will go on and we the taxpayers will be footing the bill one way or another.