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A new state fiscal year began July 1, ushering in the reinstatement of a 1 percent tax on groceries and a second increase to the state’s motor fuel tax in 2023.
Summary and audio linked here.
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.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Interesting that JB took all the credit for pausing sales tax on food when the state is merely the middle man as the tax is collected by the state but flows through to municipalities. It wasn’t his tax to “giveaway.”
High and higher taxes are what the corrupt Illinois Dems and their masters the public sector unions have consistently advocated for in this cesspool of a state.
Wait until all the smart people leave the state and only union members are left behind. The state will be nothing but overpaid, overweight, over the hill, underworked, knuckle dragging gum popping donut eating 4 hour break taking union members.
Your forgot – CORRUPT!!
You must belong to the “I’ve met 10 people whom I didn’t like and they all had one thing in common” club, immediately concluding the entire universe of people sharing that one common attribute must share all the other despicable characteristics. That’s remarkably bad and narrow thinking, and you might want to rethink your the logic of your mindset.
Here is one common attribute we all share.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%203:23&version=KJV
This passage applies to ALL of us regardless of social status/education or the lack of. None of us are sinless including myself. Look at the world around us.
This next verse applies to us today as it did then.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%206:5&version=KJV
Does this mean I may be number 11? I would rather be #15. LOL!
Sure, and you can add all sorts of biological things to that list of commonalities. Where it starts to widely vary is where the mind’s numerous voluntary take on things comes into play. Two people can see or experience the same external input but place its causes or effects quite differently which then creates a different set of responses.
EvErYoNe Is LeAvInG. nO oNe WiLl Be LeFt. LaSt OnE oUt TuRn OuT tHe LiGhTs. BlAh BlAh BlAh!
My point of view was better said by Mark Glennon when responding to another commenter with a different topic, and by no means am I implying his viewpoint is the same here: “Judge individuals individually, not based on group characteristics. That simple rule should be beyond question.”
Some of the highest gas taxes and worst roads. Where is all this money going?
I went to Kenosha county to golf yesterday, filled up my tank for $3.66 a gallon. I think Ill quit playing in the once great state of Illinois. Along with buying gas and most anything else.
Old Joe has made it SOP to buzz up to Kenosha at least once per month since he moved to Chicago.
You should also find your favorite place to pick up New Glarus products!
You should also move out of Illinois.
By staying and paying taxes you are enabling the corruption.
My wife retires at the end of the year and I did a few months ago. We are looking at places in Indiana to go. By this time next year another 2 life long residents of the once great state of Illinois will be gone.
$3.30/gallon just over the Wisconsin border.