I live in the burbs of Chicago. Rauner has as 26% approval rating. He is toast. Any one of these rats get in and the party is over for good. All of them want to double down on tax and spend and give away more free crap.
Who will then shift it to the local taxpayers. Yeah, good luck with that.
Any thoughts on CUTTING the unaffordable pensions?
Prophecy 101
Within the next ten years, maybe sooner, you will see union school teachers being replaced with AI.
Some where in the neighborhood of 60+% of your real estate and state tax dollars is going to fund these fiefdoms called schools an school districts.
One of not the biggest and easiest cost to fix is the cost of school teachers.
The more you know about what goes on in the schools the more likely you are to have nothing but disdain and contempt for the schools.
Hey ask yourself, where did your 14 year old daughter learn to give oral and anal sex? At church? At home? where?
“This is the biggest backdoor property tax increase in Illinois history,” said State Treasurer Mike Frerichs, a Champaign Democrat and a former state senator. “He says he is increasing money for education and higher education, but at the same time making them pay far more than they’re going to get. I find it galling for him to claim that he is fighting to cut taxes and put more money into education while pushing further burdens on our schools and our property taxpayers.”
All the Democrat is saying is that the same people who he says should not be burdened by higher property taxes should be burdened instead by higher state taxes. He acts like all political-tax-theifs do, telling people they deserve a monetary gift into one pocket, that actually will be taken from their other pocket.
On the other side, no one - GOP or Dim - is willing to admit - the pension costs, no matter who pays, are not sustainable and pension benefits for public employees somehow, somewhere, have to be cut.
I got a mailer for Rauner accusing Ives of SUPPORTING Madigan’s tax hike. She voted AGAINST it. Does Rauner think I’m retarded? I’m insulted by this kind of disingenuous garbage, Jim Durkin’s “Madigan Mickey” attacks on his MORE conservative opponent are in a similar vein.
Madigan is our Stalin but Rauner’s one note campaign is tiresome and lazy, all he does is whine about Madigan.
“”We need to move pension costs to the people who do the buying, and make them responsible for the paying, too,” Rauner said.”
Almost 70% of our property tax bill is specifically designated for teacher and municpal pensions now. Rauner is done. So is Illinois. Stick a fork in both of them.
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