Category: Scams
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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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Flashback: EBF Analysis from 2017 – Fact Check for CTU and the Educational Industrial Complex in Illinois
Below is an analysis of the Evidenced Based Funding formula that I wrote in August 2017 just after the bill was passed. The EBF had been pushed by the educrats in the state for over three years before its passage. Superintendents lobbied hard for the funding formula, but as one can see now, seven years later, EBF is failing.
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Billion Dollar Scams & Foolery in Illinois
Scams in Illinois – IDES fraud, PPP fraud and a bill letting non-citizens become police officers.
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It’s a Scam…
It;s a Scam. I am talking about the complete failure of Evidenced Based School Funding (EBF), the new system adopted to spend state money on education in 2017. At the time of the bill’s passage, Illinois was the number one state for reliance on local taxes to fund schools. This created large disparities in how much was spent on education among our 862 school districts (Florida, with nearly 70% more people, has only 68 school districts, btw); those disparities were mostly a factor of local property wealth and the numerous special grants that overtook the old general state aid formula over time.
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We’re extreme end of progressive thought and behavior.
There are a couple of hot-button issues that just get my blood boiling to use an old cliché. One of them is the hysterical response to the COVID-19 virus. How people responded to COVID ended up being very revealing – and for that, we should be thankful.
