Category: Illinois Budget
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Democrats Fiddle While Illinoisans Flee to Other States
Thank you to Coal, Natural Gas, and Nuclear Power for keeping the lights on and electric heaters running in these frigid temperatures. On the left is the generation fuel mix in the PJM market.
On the right is the mix in the MISO territory. Both pictures are from their Real Time Displays on their apps.
The above is a screenshot from Elon Musk’s X account showing a repost from James O’Keefe,
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Halloween was a Blood Bath in Illinois!
The Democrats passed all the above and more. And it took them only 24 hours to do so. I got an email from a lobbyist at 2:15 am on Friday, October 31st, that the assisted suicide bill was headed to the Senate floor for a vote. Within the hour, the vote was taken and the bill passed with the bare minimum of votes in the Senate.
Like thieves, the Democrats do their ghoulish work in the dark when no one is watching.
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De-Bunking Pritzker’s Re-Elect Me Speech
We think graphics and memes often tell the story far more effectively than pages of commentary. The graphic above is our most recent one, highlighting the vote of Naperville State Senator Laura Ellman (D), 21st District, for the $1.50 Delivery Tax in HB3438 that will be used to bail out Chicago-area transit agencies.
Even this graphic, though, still doesn’t invoke the type of emotion taxpayers should feel about legislators whose immediate response to a funding shortfall is to dramatically raise taxes,
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Top Illinois Stories of 2024
Here are some of my top stories in Illinois, not necessarily in order. Chosen for their impact in 2024 or their potential impact on future policy.
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Democrats Raise Taxes on Business, Then Send Millions to Private Business Groups
Summertime before an election is when the politicians in Illinois start cutting ribbons and issuing press statements about all the taxpayer money they are handing out for special projects. This year is no exception with Gov. Pritzker announcing millions in grants to various public and private entities.
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Thousands of Illinoisans Have Unsafe Drinking Water, While Pritzker Spends Million on Non-essential Services
Illinoisans should be outraged at the misallocation of resources. Taxpayers should be incensed that their money is being wasted on identitarian groups with no public purpose. Residents who have been suffering from a lack of clean water and modern sewer systems for years should ask every politician, from city council to state legislators, about funding priorities.
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The IL Budget – A Gross Abuse of Taxpayers
There’s nothing more self-righteous than an Illinois Democrat in the throes of budget negotiations.
Every one of them assumes that all the state needs to do is spend more money, and magically, matters of crime, lackluster education scores, the third-highest unemployment in the country, and a myriad of other problems will get solved.
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The Real Bugs That Emerged in IL are CTU Members
Bottomline Upfront—Below is a fairly detailed explanation of the lies that were told 7 years ago about the EBF model to fund schools. It is important because CTU showed up in Springfield this week asking for $1 billion from state taxpayers when 7 years ago, they got everything they wanted and more. They are fraudsters and Liars. In fact, the entire public education industrial complex is one giant scam in this state.
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Pension Scam – Unions Want to Undo Tier 2
The public sector unions are going ALL IN to get rid of the Tier 2 Pension System enacted January 1, 2011. They have been telegraphing its demise since the day the legislation was signed into law. If this happens, the taxpayers are doomed.
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Pritzker Proposes Massive New Taxes on Income, Businesses, and Property, And $2 Billion in New Spending
In one of the most deceptive speeches ever, Gov. Pritzker, on Wednesday in his combined State of the State and Budget Address, proposed outright a billion dollars in new taxes and $2 billion in new spending for FY 2025. Most media reports and statements by politicians and interest groups, however, missed a much larger and more important part of this political pandering piece of garbage speech.
With a magnanimous inflection,
