Gov. Pritzker’s 2025 budget is designed for politicians, not people – Wirepoints on Univision Chicago

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Rob M
2 years ago

While it’s largely been the Dems in charge, Big Jim Thompson and Edgar have their fingerprints on this as well, and Rauner, who knew what needed to be done, but refused to stand up to Madigan. He refused, due to Madigan’s power, a complicit media that ran interference for him and the unions, but also, more likely due to the fact that he and his friends did not want to lose all the lucrative government contracts, tax breaks, set asides, and carve outs they receive. That’s the real problem. The combine has bought everyone off. It’s Apartheid here in Illinois.… Read more »

Daskoterzar
2 years ago

Yep, its sad and obscene. But, is anyone surprised? Vote them out.

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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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