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How big of a price is Gov. J.B. Pritzker going to pay for a political deal that got his fiscal 2024 budget through the state legislature — but is now provoking unprecedented criticism from the state’s Latino community? Some answers may come this week after a weekend in which Latino leaders absolutely whacked the Democratic governor over his administration’s Friday announcement that it will make big cuts in the state’s health insurance for undocumented immigrants.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Pugsley wants you to pay for the illegals that he wants to use as a Democrat vote fraud bloc
Here is elegant solution: 1. Incorporate 2560 acres farmland. 2. Declare all new municipality as blighted TIF inclusion. Give any incremental ptax payment back to property owners. 3. Collect formulaic, population-based determination of Illinois income tax distribution. (Chicago gets most…a big enough population municipality in Illinois could take more than half their State revenue…). 4. Build 1000 tiny homes, and immediately populate them with illegal immigrant renters. 5. Collect higher than market-value rental payments from various sanctuary State entitlement grants. 6. Pay (relatively extreme low) property taxes based on farmland assessment for 23 years, while local school systems are forced… Read more »
This whining comes mainly from the juveniles at Crain’s. I would expect as much.
What caught my eye was the possibility that the Illinois Imbecilic Political Class may have got something right.
LOL, reading the headline, I thought maybe the citizenry was upset with plumpers giving free healthcare to illegals, while you, the deplorable, must pay. NOPE! Progressives are really mad, stomping their little feet, because too FEW illegal immigrants are getting free health care, and some of them have co-pays! Oh my goodness! This state is completely bat-s crazy.
OMG they have co-pays? Where will they get the cash? Selling their food pantry food items perhaps?
That’s the rub – they’re not going to pay the co-pays. My anecdotal evidence is that the co-pay rate is close to zero, and asking for co-pays upfront at the time of service elicits a response of “No tengo dinero”. Medicals providers are just going to have to absorb the costs of these co-pays. Or more likely, these practices will simply not accept medicaid patients at all. The practices that are stuck in majority medicaid areas may just up and leave to greener pastures out in the exurbs and start over. It is difficult to find doctors that accept medicaid… Read more »
The hospitals are required to serve the people that can’t/won’t pay and they just can’t get up and move. A certain Illinois hospital in my area hs turned into a billing machine for local health care to cover the costs of services provided to those who cant/wont pay. I am close to the state line and am more and more getting out of state health care. Better service, more qualified practitioners and waiting areas not clogged with those seeking free stuff