Given where Chicago is right now this new stadium proposal is a bad idea and a bad deal – Wirepoints on The Chicago Way with John Kass
April 26, 2024
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Ted was on The Chicago Way with John Kass and Jeff Carlin to discuss the proposed $5 billion lakefront stadium project proposed by the Chicago Bears & Mayor Brandon Johnson, why Chicago is struggling compared to other metro areas across the country, why the city might or might not go the way of Detroit, and more.
Some Illinois lawmakers continue to deny that covid aid and other federal stimulus bailed the state out of its fiscal mess. But a look at past and projected revenues from COGFA shows just how much the bailouts blew out the state’s revenues. And now that they’re over, how much harder it will be for Illinois revenues to grow.
Election integrity – both real and perceived – is essential to government’s legitimacy and stability. Illinois, like the rest of the nation, better fix its problems now.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about Chicago’s latest bond offering, why Chicago’s dismal home value growth is due to poor policies, the next $70 million to be spent on migrants, the 9% salary hikes demanded by the CTU, and why Illinois lawmakers voting to stop Chicago’s selective enrollment schools from being closed is hypocritical.
Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 4/21/2024.
The long-term goal is to reduce the threshold and increase tax revenue. Family farms have been an obstacle to that goal. By carving out the farms, this creates a separate class of all other liquid assets (stocks, mutual funds, cash, etc.) fair game for reduced thresholds and increased taxes. If you thought you were below the current threshold and exempt now, then don’t be surprised if your assets are impacted in the future.
This is Illinois. THE ONLY goal is to force the family farmer off the land so that Big Ag or Bill Gates can buy it, and then hire illegal immigrants to farm it. Our leadership HATES white conservative farmers. Some of our state reps look to Zimbabwe and South Africa and want to recreate their disastrous land reform. Because they think farming is easy – you just put seeds in the ground and stuff grows, right?