Ted joined Scott Slocum to talk about Gov. Pritzker’s cynical reasons for ending the grocery tax, why Rivian proves its a bad idea for government to choose winners and losers, the continuing troubles of the EV industry, and the property tax sticker shock awaiting Cook County homeowners.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Property tax bills come due: Cook County residents will repeat last year’s sticker shock
- Chicago progressives, don’t fret loss of your ‘Mansion Tax.’ The biggest one of all is already law, which your chosen leaders despise
- Rivian shaping up as another example of why government shouldn’t pick winners and losers
- Gov. Pritzker’s 2025 budget address and the kitchen table issues that actually matter
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
Audio and summary 
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Yep, another EV company biting the dust. But hey, the tax payers “just don’t understand”. So, when the free market tells them it doesn’t work…they take tax dollars and spend even more on Buses that don’t work. Good idea…schmucks.
Here’s another EV company going downhill faster than a boulder.
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/ev-startup-fisker-slides-cash-105547050.html
There’s pretty much nothing good about electric vehicles especially the manufacture and disposal of batteries.
The Chinese would disagree.