Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
Gov. JB Pritzker calls it “ethics” reform.
It’s rare to see city leaders in Chicago take an open, unabashed stance on the collapse of literacy. To complain is deemed as too political, too racist or too anti-public schools. So it’s refreshing to see Willie Wilson, a successful businessman and leader of the black community, call for a literacy initiative “with the goal of getting 100% of Black students reading at grade level.”
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
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Whether Illinois overspent does not have to be a subjective argument. Governments and insurers quantify the values of (“saving”) human lives as VSL (‘Value of a statistical Life’) or ‘quality-adjusted life years’ all the time. (See great articles on this by Conover at TheApothecary). QALY=$120,000 in US (That is price of 1 year dialysis). (Britain values a QALY at ~$40,000; that is monetary threshold to pay for new drugs.) VSL is unadjusted (for quality of life) number of years of life multiplied by QALY. Obviously then the VSL of a young person is much higher than that of an older… Read more »
note: if FOIA were reliably complied with by IL govt., the correspondence between ILDPH and Gov. related to QALY and VSL age-weighting of same might be as interesting as what is coming out in NY.
People need to understand that Pritzker is all about destroying the state of Illinois in order to “build back better”. Everything he does ties into United Nations agenda 21 in the world economic forum goals.
Illinois won’t get it. Move to a red state.
Wirepoints just keeps getting better and better. And it was awesome from the start.
Governor Pritzker Out in 2022.
This is the only way.
you can’t vote him out – the system is rigged for good by the fascist plutocrats and british Lord Mark Malloch-Brown who works for Soros. March 15th, 2020 was a fascist world coup involving 194 countries. prickster is the Gauleiter of illinois for the coup leaders based in London but centered around the WEF. We are a year into the sitzkreik having been told to just stay at home under the weapon of fear hundreds of millions of casualties so far in the murder shot injection that has nothing to do with the common corona virus but everything to do… Read more »
I see that the CapFax crowd is purposely trolling here under anonymous, fake names, because people are appearing here out of nowhere with fake crazy nonsense, that no one has espoused anywhere. no one has ever said this new conspiracy theory here. It’s a first, only available at Wirepoints, brought to you courtesy of CapFax’s very own house trolls!
Yes we know all about CapFax. Another meaningless “America Last” group; classic “do as I say and not as I do”, grifters, do nothing to build economies.
Seriously trolls infiltrating sites like these are becoming a problem. Not sure how but there must be a way to filter them out.
Need a ‘report’ or ‘flag’ button. There’s likely a plugin for that Wirepoints can quickly install.
I see an extra wide camera lens was needed for the included pic of the governor. It’s understandable..
lol!!