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The newest mantra is that the Russians hacked the election. Might be easier to prevent that if each vote was tied to an ID...
Yes because there is a real problem with people not being able to:
Write Checks
Use CREDIT CARDS
Open Bank accounts
Fly on Airlines
Buy Alcohol
Buy Tobacco
Buy Lotto Tickets
All these things so so many people are denied the ability because getting a valid photo ID is SO HARD...
Wait what... those don't matter, but it only matters when the integrity of the voting system is in play? Spare us the bs faux concern about ease of access, that' such a dishonest line.
1) not sure how one has 'one party rule ' with a Dem house and GOP governor.
2) if you don't know what a structural issue is, maybe it's better if you listened more and talked less.
This is just crazy. Why isn't there some mechanism that can hold the state legislature accountable? Just DISGUSTING.
Says a poster called ThreeGoofs.
The newest mantra is that the Russians hacked the election. Might be easier to prevent that if each vote was tied to an ID...
And you just proved that you don't know jack or **** about the history of Illinois, Fletch .
There is, however the mechanism failed. It's called voters, and they blew it.
Absolutely not. madigan is the wizard behind the curtain.
Wait, we can put politicians in prison for spending more than they get in revenue? Why was I not informed?!
He's been in office a little over 2 years... these problems aren't something new, it's the sins of the past coming due.
We know that the left makes it a habit of blaming things on Republicans, even when Democrats are in charge. Hell, many lefties are still blaming Reagan for a number of things.
For some reason Illinois and California are the examples every Liberal forgets when coming down on Kansas.
The dems keep raising taxes without spending cuts.
Love all the non-Illinoisians pointing fingers when they don't understand the basic roots of the problem. I also find it funny that some Illinoisians here are doing the same thing.
This isn't really a partisan issue at its root. The centerpiece for most of this is that the public pension system in Illinois has been systemically looted by both parties for decades, because its easier to do stuff like this then raise taxes or cut spending. Now the bill is coming due for the last few decades.
Illinois actually has pretty reasonable spending, so the whining BS about how the dems are spending crazily is BS. IL ranks #37/50 in spending per capita.
Total State Expenditures per Capita | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Taxes aren't unreasonable either, ranking #14/50, so the whining about how tax rates are crushing the economy is BS too.
But we have a large debt, mostly driven by underfunded pensions, which allows the state to pay employees cheaply now for a promise of a nice pension later. And since the pension guarantees were literally written into the Constitution back in 1971 or so (in a bipartisan manner), the issue is not partisan, its politicians taking the easy way out and voters agreeing, kicking the can down the road.
But lately, its come to a stupid climax, with Rauner trying to force completely incompatible ideas into the budget, and doing things like cutting the state income tax in an environment that should have demanded it remain what it was. Madigan, corrupt as he is, doesnt really have a choice but to not buckle in to the ridiculous Rauner demands, and Rauner thinks that he's getting political points by functionally shutting the whole budget process down.
when it comes to gsp, california is #1 and illinois is #5. Kansas is #32.
Well, the largest problem is that pension plans cannot be reined in because of a provision on the Constitution, and the GOP will not allow revenue to rise so these obligations can be met.
But your analysis is very quaint.
No, they aren't anything new, but Rauner has done nothing to help the situation. He was given a budget bill that cut $1 billion and raised no taxes, yet he vetoed it anyways.
state income taxes have gone up
We both know why he vetoed that bill.
The same 2011 law that hiked state income tax rates by 67 percent kicked into its built-in second phase Thursday with a partial rollback. Overnight, the tax rate for individuals dropped from 5 percent to 3.75 percent, while for corporations it declined from 7 percent to 5.25 percent.
Politics.
At least we don't have a several decades history of voter suppression as Texas does .
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