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Wirepoints says Pritzker does not want 'ordinary Illinoisans' to know facts behind state's budget crisis
Years of unbalanced budgets, unpaid bills, pension shortfalls and a collapse in manufacturing jobs are among 20 "facts" that Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker doesn't want "ordinary Illinoisans" to know, an online news service said earlier this week.
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Wirepoints founder says Democrats are talking in riddles
Mark Glennon says he marvels at how Illinois’s lingering pension system crisis now has Democrats basically talking in riddles.
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Illinios education officials want half the state's budget, Wirepoints warns
Illinois education officials are out to get half of the state's budget—and they just might—to the detriment of the state's taxpayers, according to an online Wirepoints newsletter issued earlier today.
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Lethal property taxes propelling residents out of Illinois
According to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data, at least 1.5 million residents have fled Illinois since the start of the new millennium, and Wirepoints website places the bulk of the blame squarely on the state’s “lethal combination of rising property taxes and stagnant incomes.”
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Wirepoints: Rauner's exit no cause for celebration now that Pritzker is in
Illinois residents may soon come to realize a change of scenery in the Governor’s Mansion may not be enough to give the state a different look.
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Wirepoints president says Pritzker can't keep campaign promises
Ted Dabrowski, president of the website Wirepoints, says Gov. J.B. Pritzker's first act as governor of Illinois confirms what Wirepoints predicted before he took office: He will not keep promises he made while campaigning.
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High taxes, job scarcity blamed for fueling exodus from Illinois
Ted Dabrowski argues it’s not hard to figure out why Illinois continues to struggle: New U.S. Census Bureau data report the state lost population for the fifth straight year in 2018.
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Retirees' health benefits adding to massive state debt
In Ted Dabrowski’s eyes, Illinois lawmakers' track record of financial failures are almost as endless as the state’s ever-increasing debt load.
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State facing huge debt for public-sector retiree health benefits, says Wirepoints
Illinois's "other debt disaster" is $73 billion in unfunded state retiree health insurance benefits and more than twice that amount owed over the next four decades, according to a special report issued this week by an online news outlet.
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Wirepoints: Illinois Adjusts Course Directly Into The Abyss
How much closer to Detroit or Puerto Rico must Illinois go before it reforms?
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Dabrowski: School funding formula fails to reform, will lead to tax increases
Ted Dabrowski predicts you haven’t heard the last about the new school funding formula that critics charge was written by unions as a way of getting their hands on more state tax dollars.
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Retirement plans at root of pension, tax crisis in Illinois, report says
Illinois taxpayers today owe billions toward the state’s unfunded pension liabilities, according to a report from the economics website Wirepoints.com
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Dabrowski: Magicians: How Illinois politicians made $1.2 billion in budget deficits disappear
If you want to understand Illinois’ corrupt budget making process, take the example of how the legislature just “cleaned up” some of its unaccounted-for budget deficits.
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Wirepoints founder thinks pension bonds won't fix Streator's problem
The founder of Wirepoints believes issuing bonds to pay toward pensions won't fix the problem Streator is having for fire and police retirees.
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Wirepoints founder says BGA assessment of why residents are leaving Illinois distorts data
While Better Government Association (BGA), a nonpartisan watchdog group in Illinois, says residents are leaving the state for reasons other than taxes, Wirepoints calls the data distorted.
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Report shows major issues with where education funding is going in Illinois
Illinois spends more than any other state in the Midwest on education, according to a report by Wirepoints.
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Population falling, but Illinois government leaders agree to spend, borrow more
Illinois state government leaders say they will spend a record $38.5 billion and borrow an estimated $11.5 billion over the next year, according to a fiscal year 2019 budget plan approved by Gov. Bruce Rauner.
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Advocate for higher taxes using numbers that are nonsense, Wirepoints founder says
An online news outlet's founder said he became ill when he heard an interview in which the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability's director advocated higher taxes in Chicago and Illinois to deal with the ongoing state and local pension crises.
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Mendoza's reduced bill backlog claim is 'nonsense,' expert says
Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza is misleading the public by claiming that having a state budget in place has allowed Illinois to reduce its backlog of bills, fiscal experts say.
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Illinois' net worth takes a $9.9 billion hit
The state of Illinois lost $9.9 billion in net worth in 2017, dropping its “total primary government net position” to negative $137 billion, according to the state’s newly released Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal year 2017.