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Wirepoints: 'Ending Madigan's reign' would be only the 'first step' toward stamping out corruption
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski believes that while Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan's (D-Chicago) grip on state government may be loosening, the culture of "legalized corruption" he has built over the past four decades will be much more difficult to dismantle.
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Wirepoints writer: Article on potential higher property taxes draws interest
Co-author said tip from state senator lead to exploration of potential tax increase
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Wirepoints president: Removing Madigan won't do much because 'tentacles of corruption go that wide and deep'
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski is warning Illinois residents not to make too much of House Speaker Mike Madigan (D-Chicago) being implicated in an ongoing federal corruption probe as part of the never-ending battle to clean up Springfield.
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Wirepoints president warns of property tax increases due to COVID-19
Illinoisans can expect even higher property tax rates as the ongoing pandemic accelerates the decades-long shift of the burden from commercial property holders to homes, a conservative-leaning public policy expert warned in a recent op-ed commentary
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Glennon: Pritzker playing politics with pandemic
Wirepoints founder says Pritzker's face mask claims are not supported by data
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Wirepoints: Data fail to support Pritzker's continued efforts to close Illinois
Illinois has one of the strictest schedules in the country to reopen businesses, public spaces, schools and religious institutions, leading critics to say it is time to reopen the state and get things moving again.
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Illinois first state to seek funds via new Federal Reserve lending program
Wirepoints reports that Illinois will be the first state to tap into a Federal Reserve lending program to help the state raise the funds it needs due to the COVID-19 economic shutdown as well as the income tax collections postponement.
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Wirepoints president says Illinois Democrats' latest budget epitomizes why state's economic woes persist
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski points to the way Democrats in Springfield crafted their new state budget as Exhibit A for why the state remains mired in the dire financial straits it's long found itself in.
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Wirepoints makes a data-backed argument about why Illinoisans 'can and must get back to work'
When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed off on the stay-at-home order that essentially shut off Illinois' economy five weeks ago, few could argue with his reasoning. Now, though, a government watchdog group claims the current reality warrants opening the state back up.
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Watchdog: Illinois Senate Democrats want to use pandemic to fix pension problems
Wirepoints published a letter April 17 written by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) which amounts to a federal bailout request that asked for billions.
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Wirepoints president calls for government transparency, economic strategy
Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski worries that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's one-size-fits-all approach to fighting the coronavirus crisis may ultimately make for even more victims.
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Illinois has enough ventilators for COVID-19 patients, according to state's data
If Gov. J.B. Pritzker gets the 4,000 ventilators he's requested, Illinois could end up with 2,280 more ventilators than it needs under worst-case scenario projections for the coronavirus crisis in Illinois, according to an analysis of recently released data from the state.
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Fiscal watchdog blasts lack of 'shared sacrifice' among government workers during health emergency
It pays to be among society’s elites during the coronavirus crisis.
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Wirepoints: Pritzker's $42 billion budget doesn't touch real problems
The $42 billion budget outlined by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has drawn a crowd of critics since it was announced Feb. 19, including Wirepoints, an organization that researches the Illinois economy and government and offers commentary to inform the citizens of the state.
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Wirepoints president warns businesses will struggle, pension problem will worsen with COVID-19
Financial expert Ted Dabrowski, president of Wirepoints, cautions that Illinois' financial crisis will no doubt get worse due to the impact of the novel coronavirus.
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Expect the coronavirus to hit these parts of Chicago’s budget, jobs hardest
The full impact of the coronavirus on Chicago’s economy won’t be known for some time, but if the precautions implemented to stop the spread of the virus persist, the city’s economy, budget and its residents are in for a nasty shock.
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From Lake County Gazette
Pritzker's progressive tax plan not out to benefit 'just your Average Joe,' cautions Wirepoints president
If he could, Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski would ask the same question of every Illinois voter planning to cast a ballot in November on the issue of whether the state should replace its flat income-tax rate with a progressive or graduated rate.
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Wirepoints: Don’t buy the Pritzker, Harmon rhetoric on property tax relief
One of the key selling points for Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s push to switch the state’s flat income for a progressive one is that the higher taxes paid by the top 3 percent of wage earners under a progressive tax will ease pressure on property taxes for the middle class. Newly elected Senate President Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) has been making the same claim.
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Property Tax Relief Task Force poised to miss another deadline
The Property Tax Relief Task Force, an 88-member legislative leviathan, missed one deadline for presenting its final recommendations for property tax relief in Illinois, and it’s about to miss another for putting those recommendations into action.
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Reports: Illinoisans continue to flee, taking their tax dollars with them
In ever-higher numbers, Illinois’ tax-weary residents are staking their futures in other states, recent reports by Wirepoints and the Reason Foundation show.