Ted joined Amy Jacobson and Jim Iuorio to sound the alarm on the latest economic developments in Illinois—warning that recent wage mandates and tax policies may deepen the state’s financial and civic challenges.

Read more from Wirepoints:
- New Illinois law makes it tougher for voters to block school district borrowings/tax hikes. Effingham good example.
- What New York City’s near-bankruptcy can teach Chicagoans…attend “Drop Dead City” documentary screening on July 1
- One reason, in one image, for Chicago’s apartment shortage and high rents
- How to destroy a state: swap out the wealthy for illegal immigrants
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Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Illinois paid the price for embracing Fauci’s “science.” Here’s the retrospective.