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Ted joined Jeff Daly for an in-depth discussion on Gov. Pritzker’s proposed budget for 2025: what the governor plans to spend a record $52.7 billion on, which kitchen table issues really matter, why the elimination of the 1% grocery tax does so little, and why this and all previous budgets have failed to make life better for Illinoisans. They also talked about Illinois’ failing schools and why it’s so hard for residents to oppose school district spending referendums.
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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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I hope people in Illinois see the bait & Switch, slight of hand going on with the Fat Man. He puts ads on TV claiming to have lowered natural gas bills and here claiming to have gotten rid of the 1% grocery tax…but then raises taxes in other areas. Look here…look over here!! Pay no attention to my hand in your wallet. Gotta vote them out.
PEOPLE ARE RUNNING OUT OF ILL………WHERE IS THIS FANTASY MONEY COMING FROM???? MOST OF THE PEOPLE LEFT ARE BROKE PAYING THEIR OWN BILLS…….NO MONEY FOR ILLEGALS…..MAYBE JP COULD PAY FOR THEM ON HIS OWN
Staying in Illinois makes you a funding enabler to the corruption.
Either move out of the state or hush.