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Ted joined Jeff Daly to talk about the economic stagnation occurring in Illinois, why the state budget could result in higher taxes, how badly the bill sweetening pensions for government workers will hurt ordinary Illinoisans, how lawmakers plan to make themselves look better by lowering education standards, and more.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Perhaps if the 30 percent or so registered voters that didn’t take the time to vote last election did, the lawmakers might take more interest in the “ordinary Illinoisan.”
Won’t be long before stagnation in Illinois will soon be considered an economic win.
Dems need to represent IL taxpayers, not public unions. They need to quit buying votes at the expense of taxpayers. Union pensions should be run like private sector unions
The taxpayer was put on earth to pay, pay and pay. The taxpayer works for government; government does not work for the taxpayer. Until you leave this will keep on happening to you in Illinois.
A pension fund with a state attached. A self perpetuating single party loop whereby voters kill their own states finances by voting for people more interested in their phony baloney jobs, perks and pensions than doing what’s right for residents. What would be doing right would be no pensions for new public workers and elected officials hired on or after X date, who would be given matching 401k like in the real world since the 1980s.
When you control the public unions, you control the state.
The democrat playbook, who cares about everyone else, not JB or the rest of them.
It’s always been this way. It’s our fault. People never vote these b@$t@rd$ out.
This is like a 90 years old blood. Same damn thing runs through Illinois politics
Don’t you dare blame the voters. They can’t be expected to vote differently. Politicians should just do the right thing.