If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Lawmakers conveniently ignore the full impact of inflation when it comes to ordinary Illinoisans. Take the personal exemption on the state income tax. For tax year 2023, the exemption will not rise with inflation as it should under current law. And that means a higher tax bill for everyone.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
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Of course. I would like a tree that grows billions of dollars.
But the IL/Chicago political class and their pals, the public unions, have spent us into penury. We have nothing for give aways—we cant even handle basic services like police protection.
BUT, as a sanctuary city, Chicago finds the resources to bus migrants to the suburbs. Who’s picking up the tab on the Elk Grove Village and Burr Ridge accommodations provided to ILLEGALS? I’ll bet there are a lot of homeless LEGAL Americans, many of whom have served our country, who wouldn’t object to a nice CTA bus ride to the ‘burbs, meals, and medical care. Why do we treat people who have broken our immigration law so well, yet overlook homeless who once contributed to our society? Seems ill-conceived to me, but, then again, I don’t depend on elections. Wake… Read more »
If printing money actually produced “Resilient Communities” Venezuela would be heaven on earth.
Nothing creates resiliency like free money. Right?
Creating dependency appears to be the whole Democrat platform.