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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A friend who works in Wisconsin state government told me that he and some of his fellow workers were literally laughing out loud when they looked at the language in this and a couple of other bills going through Springfield right now. But when they stopped laughing they were just scratching their heads. How could Illinois government be so ignorant of basic economics and business sense. He recalled that when he was growing up everyone in Wisconsin looked at Chicago and Illinois as the financial and business center of the Midwest, but haven’ done that for years now. He really… Read more »
One word as to what has happened in Illinois CORRUPTION
Illinois is the spearhead of communist China.
Single party rule has lead to all sorts of shenanigans.
Can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
Prey have options: be eaten, thus starving predators in the fullness of time,
Or,
As certain plants and animals have evolved to do in self-defense survival mode: mimic predators.
Every single nurse doctor and small business owner needs to form a union, a union of 1, in order to access equal rights as those who empower the Illinois political regime to stay in power. Maybe packs of prey can be formed to optimize survival rates..
Good deal for the Union
Per proposed amendment–“Employees shall have the fundamental right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing”. Mark–Not sure how you come to this conclusion, but you state if amendment is passed it would remove ANY restrictions for public sector unions to bargain with state legislature, cities or municipalities (and certainly not the taxpayers). Then WHO are they bargaining with or against if anyone? What principals of accounting or estimate of future taxation would apply to measure cost of unrestricted bargained contracts? Or does the term “bargain collectively” become meaningless? INSANITY!!!–how can any pol support this and… Read more »
GO for it. The sooner Chicago burns and the left leaning larger cities, the sooner the pendulum swings back due to insolvency or simply the absence of OPM.