Ted joined Dan and Amy to discuss the disappointments of the Chicago Police leadership, the dangerous siren-song of the “progressive-tax-for-property-tax-swap” referendum, the likely property tax that’s coming for Chicagoans despite Mayor Johnson’s promises, the disaster that is Chicago’s transportation systems, and more.
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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.
Illinois lost another 54,000 tax filers and dependents, net, according to the IRS. Since 2000, fleeing taxpayers have taken $94 billion of annual adjusted gross income with them.
There is no amount of taxes that will ever satisfy the bottomless greed of public sector unions like the vile excrement of CTU. Public Sector unions are unconstitutional and must be abolished nationwide.
In Illinois you really don’t own your home. You rent it from the government. I’m paying 10K per annum to live in a mediocre rehabbed home in Bowmanville. Tell me, in what other metropolis would this occur?
Does it really matter? Apparently the slaves who make up most of Illinois are perfectly happy being raped every year or so and getting nothing in return. Watch the next election. The morons will overwhelmingly vote democrat like it’s their job and for many of them, it is..
Did you know that if the ones receiving pensions were having to pay Illinois income taxes on anything over $100,000 of those pensions each year, the state would probably get more tax dollars than taxing only those that had income over one million. At the moment, no pensions are taxed in Illinois and so all those receiving those pensions are not paying a cent
so it falls to the wage earners.
No matter how high the taxes go, it will never be enough. One bad decision after another, coupled with corruption, greed, malfeasance and the high cost of wokeness have doomed Illinois. It has reached the point where the various taxing bodies within the state are trying to screw each other, as Pritzker’s grandstanding grocery tax “elimination” did to local taxing authorities. The millionaire tax is extremely dangerous, as it will result in a change to the Illinois State Constitution to allow graduated tax rates. Virtually all taxpayers will ultimately pay more eventually, and the highly coveted tax on retirement income… Read more »
“It has reached the point where the various taxing bodies within the state are trying to screw each other …”; aka they’re eating their own. The Dems set the table for this.