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Many of them go into effect immediately, like one that creates licensing for “landscape architects” (Senate Bill 214). Others go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, such as one requiring Illinois State flags bought by state institutions to be made in the United States (House Bill 605).
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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To steal from Jeff Foxworthy, if your governor is signing 80 bills in one day…you might be over-regulated.
You’re right, these aren’t bill for freedom! Unless they are about abortion, then it’s freedom to kill babies with impunity.
This guy signs anything. Why not sneak in his resignation papers effective immediately.
P.S. Sneak in property tax reduction of at least 50-75%.
Number of these bills look like ‘housekeeping’. However, you can see more regulation for the sake of regulation and expanded government, more ‘fees/ taxes’, more political favors for public employees unions, and more tilting of the law towards lawyers who want to sue. Overall, making Illinois worse – that’s Pritzker.
I wonder just how much of the Communist Manifesto was incorporated into those laws…