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Numbers, budgets, charts and graphs about government finances. That’s what we do here. We try to understand where public money should be spent and what it accomplishes.
Through that lens, it’s difficult to know where to begin on what has befallen the Chicago area and most of the country.
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Illinois’ COVID-19 crisis: Daily data update for May 31st, 2020 – Wirepoints
Daily COVID-19 data update for May 31st.
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“The longer the economy is shut, the worse Illinois’ revenues and deficits will be. Politicians expect jobless Illinoisans to pay for those deficits.” – Ted on the Illinois Channel
"You've got one million Illinoisans unemployed, nobody knows what's happening with the economy, we're only now starting to open up. And yet the government passed a record spending budget – the biggest ever – with no cuts, no furloughs, no kind of savings whatsoever to give relief to Illinoisans that have to pay for that government."
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Pritzker Wilts Hours Before United States Supreme Court Review, Double-Talks About-Face on Churches – Wirepoints
Was it because his “science and data” somehow changed? Or was it because he feared having his vast emergency powers challenged in the United States Supreme Court?
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Illinois government jobs protected, private sector jobs decimated during COVID-19 shutdown – Wirepoints
Two months and more than 800,000 lost jobs later, we now know which job sectors are the shutdown's biggest losers. The least impacted sector in Illinois? State government.
First Jabba says get rid of single use bags and get reusable bags. Now he says get rid of reusable bags and use single use bags. Will this bungling fool make up his mind? His incompetence would be amusing if it wasn’t getting people killed. He completely ignored complaints about how dirty reusable bags get and it’s costing lives!
So we have this war against plastic grocery bags and we now find out that reusable bags may be more harmful in this pandemic than plastic bags. When will politicians stop micro-managing everything we do?
Fat slob can use the reusable bags.
“The union also wants Chicago to suspend its tax on plastic bags, but a spokesman for Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city would only delay the time that retailers have to pay the tax.”
So wait a minute, Chicago now prohibits shoppers from using their own bags, and now forces them to pay the 7 cents a bag tax. How freaking regressive of a tax can you get. Pathetic, Lori, you are truly, truly pathetic, authoritarian scum.