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Ted Dabrowski appears on Newsmax to talk about Wirepoints research of IRS data showing people are fleeing blue states for red states.
Wirepoints piece on the new IRS data for 50 states: New IRS data reveals which states won and lost the competition for people and their wealth in 2019
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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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so,if youre a politician in a democrat run state and dont see the exodus,youre either blind,stupid,or for some unknown reason,just dont care,im going with blind and stupid which describes most illinois politicians
They just don’t care.
They want you to live. Democrat cities vote 90/10, or 95/5 Democrat. They want you gone. Haven’t they made that obvious?
Out in the open obvious yes.
Its nice to see Ted speaking the hard truths.
My highly educated high school friend just told me that due to Pritzker Illinois is finally in sound fiscal shape. The thing is, looking at the math is so painful that it is easier to accept a palliative narrative. I sort of get it, although think it is delusional. Illinois has lost its way. A real driver and motivation in life is to make things better for the next generation or generations. Our post WW II predecessors had this ethic, and we benefitted greatly. The current fiscal policies absolutely dump a load of hot coals on the next generation, without… Read more »
sounds like your ” highly educated ” friend is either clueless or he drank the democrats kool aid
Sounds like you blame Boomers, which is the correct answer.
I see nothing blameworthy about cutting their losses and protecting their families. It will be up to historians to make virtue awards to those with the courage to risk going down with the ship. Who remembers the name of the Captain of the Titanic? This does not mean that there aren’t objectives that warrant sacrifice but trashing Chicago while making it safe for the homeless and undocumented is a difficult case to make. Love to hear the long- and short-term reasons for Karl’s write-off of boomers acting in their enlightened self-interest.