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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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Fiscal responsibility was inheriting a 5% income tax rate. Nothing more.
JB, please explain how those “over-due” bills were resolved? If not for the money from the Federal Government, how many would still be on the books? How are our pensions? How is our aging and decaying infrastructure? Most of us were raised to never wish ill on another, but he clearly is ambivalent to truth and to the plight of those folks who will not sell their vote for a ticket in his freebie line… Hell, he doesn’t care about those folks in the years immediately following an election, truth be told… Sadly, if intelligence is normally distributed, he will… Read more »
Who’s the State Journal-Register? I thought that was a Babylon Bee article.
Well played.
With the GOP positioned to take back congress in Washington, the fed money will stop flowing. Time is running out for anyone planning to leave Illinois with money in their pocket.
An Illinois balanced budget? Where JB? Without the federal bailouts, the state is in front of a bankruptcy judge having its insane pension plans and multiple layers of government reassessed. Of course it’s all Rauner’s fault, JB the Hutt. Isn’t it? It couldn’t be the insane spending policies and priorities of Illinois’ political elites, the ones who never met a spending opportunity they could say “no” to. An opportunity to have a building or a bridge named for themselves? Sure. Pay raises for state employees completely out of line with those in the private sector. Sure. Pension pick-ups? Heck yeah.… Read more »
As soon as he said ‘Rauner’, I stopped reading.
He boasts pay are bills on time and balanced budgets under his rule, he forgot one very important thing, milking the taxpayers to death with no end in sight.
Pritzker wake up from your dream and thank the federal government (taxpayers) from across the country for temporarily and I mean temporarily saving Illinois from bankruptcy, which still loams after the cash cow dries up. Stop patting yourself on the back please you make me sick.
Well Governor Flintstone, another hundred thousand plus voted with their feet to leave Illinois under your leadership, so I guess they didn’t believe the lies and misdirection. You doubled the gas tax on the backs of hardworking residents and paid the lazy to stay on the couch. Your prized city has an out of control violence problem thanks to your anti law and order mandates. You wasted millions on building out McCormick Place as a hospital that wasn’t needed, claimed you needed 20,000 ventilators and blew hundreds of millions on contact tracers that did nothing. Illinois is worse off because… Read more »
So there we have JB’s basic campaign theme: The budget is balanced, he fixed Illinois’ financial problems, and Rauner is to blame for everything. All whoppers, of course, but that will be his story. Here is the reality: Massive cash from feds: https://www.crfb.org/blogs/state-and-local-governments-flush-cash
Regardless of the reality the usual Illinois voters will buy straight into his blab and re-elect him by a large majority.
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JB like every statewide officer holder in the past few decades, is mostly reliant on turnout. JB is extremely polarizing and in November 2022 voters are either going to show up for him or for the other guy. Nothing JB says or does will convince anyone to switch their vote. He’s not nearly as polarizing as Trump but people really hate JB Pritzker in Illinois. JB may also get a little …ahem….help….coming from Chicago in late night vote drops but it remains to be seen whether turnout everywhere is high enough to overcome the strong national Republican favorability polls. My… Read more »