If you’re frustrated with Illinois’ educational results, you may want to follow the money from teachers unions. In the last four years alone, Illinois lawmakers and political candidates have taken nearly $30 million in contributions from teachers unions and their national affiliates.
Lawmakers conveniently ignore the full impact of inflation when it comes to ordinary Illinoisans. Take the personal exemption on the state income tax. For tax year 2023, the exemption will not rise with inflation as it should under current law. And that means a higher tax bill for everyone.
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski testified on April 10, 2024 to members of the House Revenue and Finance Committee at the invitation of Rep. Joe Sosnowski. Ted told lawmakers that the state’s property tax burden has become dire for countless Illinoisans.
Ted joined WLS 890’s PM Chicago Show to discuss Chicago’s worsening pension crisis, why the city’s crisis makes it such an outlier nationally, its negative impact on residents, government workers and retirees alike, and what Mayor Brandon Johnson should do about it.
When has any company persisted with a project in the face of stronger local, statewide and national opposition? When have taxpayers subsidized a more harebrained project?
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Shouldn’t the metric be how many loans have been denied? What financial institutions are the primary lenders in Black neighborhoods? Are minorities more likely to use credit unions?
The big companies only have themselves to blame for this. They all virtue signaled and donated to Black Lives Matter, not making the distinction that BLM is a terror organization, whereas other organizations actually help black people while obeying the law. All because they are afraid of being labeled racist. They also stand by while conservative websites–who defend the rule of law and property rights–are deplatformed and cut off from big tech, saying nothing. Big Company execs: Did you think the beast would be appeased by your Twitter messages and sanctimonious commercials? None of you big companies would dare stand… Read more »
“All because they are afraid of being labeled racist.”
Some of them, for sure. But the rest of them agree with the message and were out protesting with the rest of them. Remember when corporate America used to be uncool? We called them ‘suits’ and working in a corporate office was just a rat race? Now, big dominant corporations are ‘cool’ and ‘woke’ and everyone wants to buy some particular brand because they support social justice.
Those with low credit scores have wore out their welcome with Capital One and the other subprime lenders, and now demand that Chase lend down at the 620 credit score level. Good luck with that.
The smart thing would be to close all branches and leave Chicago