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“I think we should have tax credits that support education and other things in state government, but we also have the federal government willing to cover about 40% of the cost,” Gov. JB Pritzker said Wednesday. “Why have we created a program in which we’re paying for 75% of it and not having the rest of the country essentially paying 40%?”
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Who believes any comment that JB makes when he tries to fool people into believing he is a reasonable person? He removed toilets to cheat on property taxes, lied about only wanting fair election maps, etc. He has the credibility of the downtrodden BLM leaders who have purchased mansions in the tonier parts of LA.
Why should the federal government and the other 49 states pay for educating Illinois children?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Hmm, I’ll bet one of the changes will be to include the kids of illegal aliens.
I’m pretty sure those students are already eligible for the program. Eligible students are those that can attend an Illinois public school.
Noting that most of the participating schools are Catholic or Christian, it would probably fit into their mission to help out those in the most need.
“What’s the matter with us? We’re Democrats. We always get somebody else to pay for our ideas. How did we approve a program that we actually have to pay for?”
Trying to hide the real reason they killed the program: their benefactors demanded it.