The idea that the state's financial hole is just $3.2 billion is preposterous—off by several multiples. And that's the claim underpinning the argument of pro-graduated-tax progressives.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list, including $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools. Among the reasons his demand should be categorically rejected: the growing rate of CPS teachers simply not showing up to school.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about a new law passed by the Democratic supermajority and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that results in brazen election interference, keeping Republicans off ballots; about a referendum that tests the waters for a renewed progressive income tax hike; about how the Parental Notification referendum question was knocked off the ballot; and why laws like that pass so easily.
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Thank you Mark-Fantastic!! no matter your politic–why isn’t ending the fake repressive scam of government cash accounting a human right up there with healthcare??? haven’t the Europeans, Canadians, Japanese ,who the left always want to emulate, already largely done away with cash accounting with the adoption of international accounting standards?
Can anyone explain why Martire and Manar went through all the trouble of the new evidence based funding formula only to have it fall a few billion short of what is allegedly needed? TTalk about a bait and switch.
Because he knows a progressive tax can’t raise much. The new funding formula was very obviously designed to allow schools to scream “inadequacy” indefinitely. Martire has already moved on to advocating a range of other new taxes beyond the progressive income tax. I give him credit for being more honest about that than other progressives.