Join Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski and Founder Mark Glennon on the second episode of Wirepoints podcast: The Dialogue. They discuss the Illinois exodus and outmigration issue facing the state.
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Your property taxes pay for government workers’ guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions while you get no such guarantees – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
April 18, 2024
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Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss why Illinois’ property taxes are such a national outlier, why Illinoisans are forced to pay the high, guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions of the government class, why Illinoisans aren’t getting their money’s worth for what they pay, the teachers unions’ influence over elections, and more.
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
How many people are leaving Chicago because of this? Chicago is mentioned halfway down the article. When things get really really bad I ‘d hate to live in a big city. Food shortages due to employers can’t find workers and new riots because of another police shooting sometime down the road will cause more looting. I already see signs at my local store saying that there are manufacturing problems and limit items to one. There is a massive truck drivers shortage so deliveries are delayed. So it may not be a bad idea to stock up on non perishables and… Read more »
Interesting how all states are using these signs and we didnt have these problems with Trump. The politicians are all working the democommie agenda for the new world order….just as the mayor of Chicago stated in an interview last year. They are working the agenda to control citizens and all aspects of their lives.
When the overbloated governor came into office he RAISED EVERY SINGLE FEE within months! Property taxes outrageous, schools declining, crimes increasing, corruption in all levels of judicial, governor thinks he makes laws, money not properly used. Not a sectet IL has a dreadful reputation nationally.
How many politicians and public employees would trade one conservative entrepreneur for five clueless voters who’ll do what they’re told? Start with upper-level long-tenure individuals: they have jobs that pay well and pensions that do the same and great exit-potential when their pensions and benefits follow them to Georgia or Colorado. These are the mentors for incoming politicians and public employees. The thing that’s missing is long-term thinking. That sort of thinking is also found in corporate leadership where short-term performance bonuses and lateral movement to a competitor is often the best way UP. Bright and effective people whose economic… Read more »
Every time, the first thing communists do is expel, or kill, the educated elite who think the ‘wrong’ way. IL is no different as they enact policies that drive educated conservatives out of the state while attracting uneducated foreign born residents. Like the recent Mexican Independence Day Celebrations in downtown Chicago. Fortunately, all IL can do now is make it so difficult for conservatives that the leave. But in other communist countries, they have killed them. And the only regret the communist tyrants have on their death beds is that they didn’t kill enough for the cause. Talk Radio host… Read more »
Over the top perhaps but lynchings followed by acquittals or hung juries might get us most of the way there — assuming the prosecutors wouldn’t block it out of the gate.