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.
Illinois’ dismal education numbers – especially for minority students – are embarrassing to politicians and officials. But rather than admit there’s a problem with Illinois’ education system, they attack the state’s own standards for being “too high,” instead.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about the free speech controversy brewing in Wilmette due to the city’s refusal to fly a religious freedom flag, the city’s left-wing excesses and the growing culture war, the latest money spent on the illegal immigrant crisis, and more.
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There are other parts of the state outside of Chicago.
Lightfoot is worried about things out of her control (state aid) but does nothing about things within her control (spending cuts). That is textbook poor management.
Lori knows exactly how bad it is. She’s not delusional. She’s just lying to us. Of course she’s saying that cuts, layoffs and furloughs are the last option. But the fact of the matter is that she’s already mentioning those options, and talking an awful lot about them being the last option. And it won’t be long, not very long at all, before she tells us that those last options, that she’s been mentioning for months now, are a reality, and there are no other options. The alternative would have been to address this early on and talk about shared… Read more »
Exactly, as has been said before, soon the municipalities will have to choose between funding huge pensions and current workers/services. Once they choose existing services for direct political reasons (the next vote or social harmony), the state will garnish. Then the real death spiral begins.
On youtube check out “Tucker, why isn’t the ACLU fighting for our liberties?” for a vid that makes Lori look like an idiot. Read this editorial from the teachers’ union president in Philly who is asking for massive new funding for schools. He doesn’t explain who is going to pay for all that. The comments are pretty funny. Philly school district has $1 billion cash and $8 billion debts and unfunded pensions.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/coronavirus-covid-philadelphia-budget-education-school-district-20200504.html
Philly unions are not well liked according to those comments!
Hurry up and watch “Planet of the Humans” on you-tube before it’s taken down. It’s about the green energy scam but the flim flam of green energy is strikingly similar to Illinois lawmakers search for budget fixes that don’t really do anything. Isn’t Illinois trying to push green energy like California?
The movie that finally turned Hollywood against Michael Moore.