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Illinois Policy

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Illinois Policy

@illinoispolicy

Fighting corruption, high taxes, poverty, and barriers to progress and innovation in Illinois and Chicago.

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Illinois Policy
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Jun 12
.@GovPritzker did not "eliminate" his planned gas tax hike, of course. He delayed it until after his election. What makes this lazily fallacious tweet even more egregious is the fact that Pritzker has quietly squeezed Illinois drivers every year since 2019, and he made it so
Governor JB Pritzker
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Jun 9
We eliminated this year’s inflation on gas tax to give working families some relief at the pump from Donald Trump.
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 19
Springfield has a massive transparency problem. It's by design. Instead of debating policy, state lawmakers push laws through in the dark. Almost 400 bills passed the General Assembly this session. The timing exposes a scandalously broken system: >Over 40% of these bills
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Jun 19
Over 40% of Illinois bills passed in last week of session
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Jun 19
.@GovPritzker is set to sign a bill banning cell phones in schools during instructional time, over the Chicago Teachers Union's objections. @CTULocal1 is claiming managing phones places a burden on teachers. They've dismissed the bill as a "distraction". Currently, just 2 in
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Jun 19
Pritzker gets his school cell phone ban bill despite CTU opposition
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Austin Berg
@Austin__Berg
Jun 18
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s new transaction tax on digital assets is drawing national attention. Something I’ve not seen mentioned in any reporting on this: In 2023, Pritzker said he would veto any financial transaction tax in Chicago. At the time, Mayor Brandon Johnson was
CoinDesk
@CoinDesk
Jun 17
NEW: Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions into law including transfers between personal wallets, with the Crypto Council for Innovation calling it "the most punitive digital asset tax in the country."
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Nicki Neily
@nickineily
Jun 18
Chicago students deserve better than expensive failure. At @ChiPubSchools, only 18% of students are proficient in reading and 8% in math, despite spending 15% more per pupil than the district average.
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Jun 18
Progressive politicians love to talk about "equity" in Illinois. Interestingly, under @GovPritzker, a recent study using 2024 data shows Illinois ranked dead last out of 50 states in equality between racial categories within the state. As we speak, middle- and low=income
Vallas: Pritzker signs a budget giving Illinois tax hikes, higher spending
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 17
NEW Illinois public schools lost more than 10% of their students over the last decade, ranking 4th-worst in the nation. While the national average declined by just 2%, Illinois lost students at five times that rate. Poor academic outcomes, like a dismal 39% math proficiency
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Jun 17
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Illinois public school enrollment drop 4th-worst in U.S. 
The state saw a drop of over 10% in the period from 2014 to 2024, five times the national rate.
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Jun 17
Illinois students could receive a surge of $1 billion in education funding with no strings attached but the Chicago Teachers Union is trying to block it. The Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program is a massive opportunity for Illinois taxpayers and families. But instead of
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 17
Pritzker to decide whether Illinois students receive $1 billion from private donations
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 16
🚨NEW @GovPritzker signed a record $55.9 billion Illinois budget. The state budget hits Illinoisans with up to $1.4 billion in new revenue, including taxes on digital ads, social media, and fantasy sports. It also sweeps $150 million meant for the Road Fund directly into
Pritzker signs $55.9 billion budget
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 15
The Chicago Teachers Union is demanding a massive expansion of its “sustainable community schools” model even though the data proves it is an objective failure. @CTULocal1 activists imagine these schools as community hubs with wraparound services. But we now have the numbers
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Jun 15
Chicago’s sustainable community high schools: Lower outcomes, higher costs
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Jun 12
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Illinois gas tax set to increase every year—without a vote
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Illinois Policy
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Jun 12
Progressive politicians very often use "millionaires tax" branding to make it sound like the targets of their tax proposals are limited to the ultra-rich. Of course, this is never true. State lawmakers in Illinois were ready to slam 22,000 Illinois small businesses with a
Illinois lawmakers fail to pass millionaires tax, path to progressive income tax
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Chicago Contrarian
@ChicagoContrar1
Jun 11
Three weeks after the CTU failed to raise $8.5M from members, @rweingarten generously intervened and gave Stacy Davis Gates' IFT $226,037. Anyone want to wager some, if not all, of this cash winds up in the hands of CTU-backed candidates for Board of Ed. or Mayor Johnson?
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