Category: Illinois Budget
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$708 Mil on Illegals
Today Rep. Halbrook requested a report on total state spending projected and committed on illegal aliens since August 2022. In total, that number for all state agencies exceeds $708 million.
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Your Money, Your Freedom, and Your Future
This state is a haven for progressive ideology which has accelerated under the Pritzker regime, and as you will see in some of the items I highlight in this newsletter, that ideology is ubiquitous from Chicago to small towns.
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Pritzker Spending $23 Million of Public Money to Subsidize Feticide
Illinois’ retrograde governor and his bloodthirsty Democrat apparatchiks in Springfield are going to spend $28 million taxpayer dollars for residents and non-residents to have their offspring offed.
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$300,000 to BLM Lake County
The most recent Illinois budget includes a $300,000 grant to Black Lives Matter Lake County. The group is led by a convicted felon and appears to be defunct.
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Disturbing Content in Schools
Podcast from Highland Park Parent demanding metal detectors after a student brought a gun into school, Discussion about pensions, and my Reveille on Illinois’ $1 billion cost for non-citizen healthcare – was it a personal gift for the sponsor of the enacting legislation three years ago?
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Illinois’ Scandalous Budget Process
llinois’ program for free Medicaid for illegal immigrants is expected to cost an estimated $990,000,000 – 495 TIMES what the estimate was at the time of passage just three years ago.
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Who’s the Real Carnival Barker?
Gov. Pritzker has a bad habit of calling people who point out failures of public policy in Illinois “Carnival Barkers.” This would have to include every major newspaper, state, and national think tank, and the state’s own Committee on Government Forecasting and Accountability. But, what really is a Carnival Barker? It’s someone trying to sell you a chance at a game that is rigged or a sideshow that is deceptive. I think that term, Carnival Barker, more aptly fits Governor Pritzker, especially after the speech he gave on Wednesday.
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In Illinois, Do You Get What You Pay For?
It’s not just anecdotal, you didn’t just imagine it as you drove past the Illinois border into other states, now, studies bear it out – that Illinois has some of the worst roads in the nation.
