Quick Hits
A few stories of interest. Louis is (hopefully) in trouble again:
- Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago is under review by the House Ethics Committee, which did not spell out why but promised to reveal more by May 5.
Gutierrez's spokesman, Douglas Rivlin, said the committee is looking into annual payments of about $50,000 over 10 years to a contractor, The Scofield Company, whose senior partner is Doug Scofield, Gutierrez's former chief of staff.
If only it were possible for all of Louis's sins to catch up with him all at once. He'd burst into flame and continue burning for at least 10 days.
Heliport in Bridgeport?
Heliport in Bridgeport?
- Eleven years after former Mayor Richard M. Daley demolished Meigs Field under cloak of darkness, Chicago will soon have two places where helicopters can take off and land.
The Chicago Plan Commission made sure of that Thursday by clearing for take-off a plan by Wheeling-based tour company Chicago Helicopter Express to build a $12.5 million heliport on the south branch of the Chicago River.
The article doesn't mention any public funds being used in construction. But we imagine the elder Daley is spinning in his grave.
When the US Supreme Court opens a door, trust a democratic Illinois Dupreme Court to go charging through it and take things to illogical extremes:
When the US Supreme Court opens a door, trust a democratic Illinois Dupreme Court to go charging through it and take things to illogical extremes:
- Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins says she long ago forgave David Biro, who was a teenager in 1990 when he shot her pregnant sister and brother-in-law to death at the couple’s Winnetka home.
But that does not mean Biro should ever be released from prison, said Bishop-Jenkins, who has been a high-profile advocate for murder victim’s families in the years since her sister’s death.
To her dismay, Biro’s release from prison is now a possibility.
Eighty convicted murderers, sentenced to life in prison under the law, have a shot at walking free to the dismay of the co-workers, friends and families of the deceased.
And we thought Madigan was smarter than this - guess not:
And we thought Madigan was smarter than this - guess not:
- Illinois Democrats went all-in Thursday with their election-year class warfare theme as Speaker Michael Madigan pitched the idea of asking voters to raise taxes on millionaires, Senate President John Cullerton advanced a minimum-wage increase and Gov. Pat Quinn compared wealthy opponent Bruce Rauner to TV villain Mr. Burns.
[...] The powerful Democratic speaker said the tax hike on millionaires is a way to generate more than $1 billion for elementary and high schools. Madigan based his calculations on what he said are roughly 13,675 millionaires that lived in Illinois in 2011, brushing aside a question about whether such a tax hike might drive them out of the state.
“Well, if they’re in Illinois today, they’re probably so much in love with Illinois that they’re not going to leave,” Madigan said. “We’ve done this because we feel that the millionaires in Illinois are the ones that are better equipped to support education than others.
Maybe he missed the reports, but Illinois ranks second only to New Jersey for people leaving their state. Raising the tax rates to confiscatory levels on the people most easily able to leave will result in them doing exactly that. Econ 101 again, but of course, that sort of thinking is alien to Illinois democrats.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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Wacky insane world.
I'd imagine Madigan is a millionaire. We know Rahmmy's worth about $18mil. Cullerton has a house that was built in Ravenswood Manor a few years ago. He's gotta be in that category. He's not hurting, considering he's also a partner at a downtown law firm. We know king Richie is making more now than when he was mayor....let's see how it applies to them too.
"...asking voters to raise taxes on millionaires..."
How about eliminating income tax on people making less than, oh, $20,000 per year? This group only contributes about 2% of the total take anyway. You could ease some real poverty here, and alleviate some real suffering -- which is why no politician will touch it.
Re: the Madigan Millionaire Moneygrab, go check out the comments on Crain's Chicago Business. Madigan miscalculated big time on this one.
"Raising the tax rates to confiscatory levels on the people"
Think you might be exaggerating?
Apparently you enjoy paying the same Rate while subsidizing corporations. Why work VRI, hasn't the trickle down been working wonders for you ?
and they left out the part that, included in this bill is making the last "extra" state income tax hike permanent....
Nothing to see here, move along....
So if the millionaires are the politicians, do they foot the bill for this bullshit THEY created? Because all of these so called public servants that go into politics end up millionaires. How do they point a finger at themselves with a straight face?
The answer is that their voters are idiots.
Here's some info to Madigan and the rest of the liberals:
Illinois lost over 13,000 citizens with incomes over $100,000. For you Libtards out there in your McMansions, this means there's less people able to afford your McMansions, which means there's less demand for your real estate, which means plunging real estate prices.
Keep voting dummycrat.
Anybody looking at the discount Louis G. received when he purchased his house?
This does piss me off. I'm not a millionaire, but my house is worth over a million, and I get paid a nice salary because I work my ass off. I pay a lot of it in freaking taxes, and that's fine. Tax me. But don't tell me I'm not paying my fair share. I pay more than my fair share. You already take so much that frankly we don't go out all that much or buy new stuff or anything like that -- the kids and our creditors get it all. Not sure Mikey's tax idea is going to really help anybody. But I can't "leave Illinois" because it's where my job is. Go ahead, punish me some more.
>>Madigan said. “We’ve done this because we feel that the millionaires in Illinois are the ones that are better equipped to support education than others<<
Gee, how about the ones who produced the children support the education thereof?
"better equipped" is just pure Marxism - essentially: "from each, according to their ability"
the Democrat party is Communist
And Republican Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin is returning boatloads of money to the taxpayers because he keeps cutting taxes. This is a no-brainer! The population of millionaires north of the Cheddar Curtain should start to increase in Five ... Four ... Three ...
BOOM: $1 Billion Surplus in Wisconsin…Gov. Scott Walker Returning It to Taxpayers
Read more at
http://clashdaily.com/2014/01/boom-1-billion-surplus-wisconsin-gov-scott-walker-returning-taxpayers/#MGsSJgMxL0Hdc7PB.99
Madigan's comments seem like he is daring the millionaires to leave Illinois. Madigan's time is almost up. Maybe he wants to make sure the ship is completely sunk upon his departure.
Why would anyone with money stay in this state? It's gotta feel like being pestered to buy chiclets in Mexico
How about using the profits from the Illinois state lottery to fund the fucked up public school system?
Oh wait....... Never mind.
Rauner's primary residence is in the northern suburbs. His daughter failed to gain entry to New Trier so he bought a multi-million dollar condo and got his daughter into CPS.Ironically, not one of his own Charter schools but one of those schools where the teachers are in that nasty union.
SCC, this is all a set up. Nothing in Illinois politics happens in a vacuum, as you know. This is setting the stage for November, when Quinn the Beneficent goes to battle against the wealthy, hateful, baneful Rauner, who will personally pay for all the lower classes to be put in concentration camps so they won't defile his new state. Quinn has already been ginning up a class-warfare style election, and you can bet this is a part of it: "Look! The Democrats are for TAXING TEH RICH!!!"
The Lake County Indiana Sheriff's Police helicopter landed in a field in 004 the other day. It didn't cost a dime.
The great state of California has come out with a special millionaire tax. Illinois should follow suit.
It is only right. It gives the state need revenues and at the same time addresses income inequality. There is no reason a captain of industry, should have more money than his lowest paid worker. Nor, should the Superintendent of Police be paid more than a rookie patrolman. Income should be equal for all, and those who have more should be taxed to give to those who have less.
How nice of the media to sit on the story about the unethical Luis Gutierrez until after the primary election was over! Luis had several opponents for the nomination and maybe they would have fared better if the news had been made public earlier.
Let's not forget the mistakes made by the Assessor's Office that benefited Gutierrez (listing his building as a vacant lot) and saved him thousands of dollars in taxes.
To Democrats, a "millionaire" is anyone who has a job.
All for show. The Ethics committee is a joke.
Nothing ever happens to these POS's.
a millionaire tax.
so much for that 'choose chicago' crap being boasted about in an attempt to attract business and entrepreneurs here.
one should ask oneself; what would oprah do.
oh wait that's right...
CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is selling Harpo Studios in Chicago ... About 200 people work at the 3.5-acre campus, which will sell for about ...
Oprah cuts her last commercial ties to Chicago
Highly Cited-Crain's Chicago Business-Mar 16, 2014
yep, choose chicago..lol
chicago home sales down 8.3 percent -- prices up 11.4 percent.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=207931
let's think about that for a minute.
if home sales are down to the point that only the high rollers are selling their million dollar mansions to speculators wouldn't the average sales price of homes go up.
then we imply that the price for our shack has gone up because of the manipulated data.
like the job creation crap the marketing b.s. of shortages. better hurry, there's shortages.
a used car salesman once told me that the first thing ya gotta do is to create a sense of urgency.
We are also 2nd worse state in country as far as debt. This state will go bankrupt no doubt, with Quinn rahm and the rest if the criminal combine joking and taking millions from us. This state or any state cannot sustain itself with all the freebies to illegals and lazy section 8 scum. How many times are you shopping for groceries and in front is multiple people with link cards, we the taxpayers are buying their groceries for them, but the demorats want votes and they give away our money!
well releasing murderers from illinois prisons may be just what this company and chicago needs...
monetize the crime -- it's a gdp booster
Accretive Health Chicago layoffs - Chicago Tribune
Jan 24, 2014 - Accretive Health will lay off as many as 170 employees, or around one-quarter of its Chicago-area workforce, as it continues an ongoing ...
remember rahm's failed attempt...
Rahm Emanuel: Back off Accretive Health probe | Hot Dish Politics ...
www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/150635345.html
Star Tribune
May 8, 2012 - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to back off of Accretive Health Inc. until she's met ...
yep, 'choose chicago'
you failed to get the minn. a.g. off our back in may 2012 so we're leaving town jan 2014.
with crime falling in chicago [cough-cough] there's not enough people in the hospitals er's for accretive to badger on how they are going to pay their bill while bleeding out on a gurney i guess
more shooting victims creates much needed good paying jobs for chicago. a boost to the economy.
Rauner (although I am not thrilled with him, considering he is probably a RINO and of course family friend and millionaire enabler to rahm) should call for a 5% increase and drop the income level down to maybe $100,000. You know, for the children. Then lets see all the union workers who earn about that much start howling. That would take the stigma off the millionaire thing and throw it back at the demos.
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lots of money. However, there won't
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I sense the reign of Madigan may be coming to an end.
And the idiot Raunner wants to tax pensions Hello Patato Head for Govener
There are many cpd exempts, retired and active, that have net worth in excess of $ one million liquid. Even a patrolman can amass $1 mil, counting real estate in 25 years.
Wouldn't Madigan count since he's extorted and made millions off of the state? Asking for a friend.
"Eleven years after former Mayor Richard M. Daley demolished Meigs Field under cloak of darkness, Chicago will soon have two places where helicopters can take off and land."
...and the residents near these proposed heliports are now objecting. They're worried that an accident may send a helicopter into their houses. (A news chopper just went down in Seattle -- took off from a rooftop pad and went straight down into the street below, almost went into the Space Needle right across the street.)
We should build a general aviation field out on that Northerly Island. It'd be a lot safer, everything comes and goes out over the lake and the noise stays out there too.
The project would create lots of local jobs, right?
How about it?
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Put the dollars into pensions , cps is full of illegal immigrants .
Poeple vote with thier feet when they dont like something. Speaking of voting, Potatoe head is looking like the lessor of two evils.
Maybe he missed the reports, but Illinois ranks second only to New Jersey for people leaving their state.
Can't pin this on GMac, can we ?
Tax Rahm & Brucie?
Nice jesture to the little folks. Nothing like loading up the referendum box for the Nov. election.
How about a referendum to lower, freeze and eliminate politicians pay & per diem?
Putin just imposed a tax on millionaires too, but with Obamas sanctions, I don't think they'll pay up and neither would anyone here. So evidently, Madigan read the MoscowTimes the night before he came up with this brainstorm.
All these wonderful ideas to raise money for a bunch of shit to give to people who already have more free shit than the law allows but that can't seem to find an idea to raise money to pay back the pension money they have been steeling for decades un fucking believable . Unless you consider the idea they came up with to raise taxes on people including the workers who's pensions are in trouble because of them !!! So , they want to raise taxes on a person who's pension is on trouble to pay himself back !!!! Theses fucking people are criminals
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The great state of California has come out with a special millionaire tax. Illinois should follow suit.
It is only right. It gives the state need revenues and at the same time addresses income inequality. There is no reason a captain of industry, should have more money than his lowest paid worker. Nor, should the Superintendent of Police be paid more than a rookie patrolman. Income should be equal for all, and those who have more should be taxed to give to those who have less.
3/21/2014 08:02:00 AM
You know there are going to be people here who think you're serious, so prepare for the onslaught.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wouldn't Madigan count since he's extorted and made millions off of the state? Asking for a friend.
3/21/2014 11:09:00 AM
It will only count if your tax form shows you made more than a million after all the reductions and 'adjustments'.
Probably means a lot of people are going to make $999,800/yr from now on...
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about using the profits from the Illinois state lottery to fund the fucked up public school system?
Oh wait....... Never mind.
3/21/2014 07:22:00 AM
What, you mean divert the money back to schools, instead of MS organizations and all the other 'causes' the money is suddenly going to?
(How is that even allowed?)
Anonymous Anonymous said...
There are many cpd exempts, retired and active, that have net worth in excess of $ one million liquid. Even a patrolman can amass $1 mil, counting real estate in 25 years.
3/21/2014 10:53:00 AM
ANNUAL income, not amassed worth over a lifetime, is what and who will be taxed.
This state is circling the drain
From the Illinois Policy Compass...
Speaker Mike Madigan issued a statement today calling for more tax hikes in Illinois. The most important line of his statement was this: "individual income up to $1 million would continue to be taxed at the current personal rate."
Madigan is counting on the public to view his proposal as a "tax on the rich." But his proposal is not just a tax increase on the rich — it's a tax increase on every single Illinois household.
Under current law, Illinoisans will finally see tax relief in 2015 when the state income tax rate is slated to drop to 3.75% from today's rate of 5%. Madigan is proposing that lawmakers break their promise to provide tax relief, and is hoping taxpayers are too blinded by his class warfare political play to notice.
The truth of the matter is this: In 2011, Madigan and the Democrats in Springfield raised taxes, promised the tax increase would be temporary, and that it would help pay off an $8 billion backlog of unpaid bills, get Illinois back on sound fiscal footing and make sure the state has a strong economy. According to our latest report, by the time the tax increase sunsets in January 2015 it will have generated more than $31 billion in additional tax revenue. Yet Madigan and Springfield politicians are still crying poor. And worst of all, Illinois still has a $7 billion backlog of bills, the worst credit rating in the nation and the highest unemployment rate in the Midwest.
It is wrong to ask the hardworking families of Illinois to continue bailing out Springfield’s wasteful spending and continued mismanagement.
Madigan's latest move is a blatant violation of the promise made to Illinois taxpayers.
Call 1-844-NOTAXIL to tell your legislator to oppose another Springfield money grab.
Rauner's primary residence is in the northern suburbs. His daughter failed to gain entry to New Trier so he bought a multi-million dollar condo and got his daughter into CPS.Ironically, not one of his own Charter schools but one of those schools where the teachers are in that nasty union.
How do you "fail to gain entry" to New Trier? It is a public school. If he can afford to buy a condo for her to go aCPS school, he can afford to buy one in the New Trier school district.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
There are many cpd exempts, retired and active, that have net worth in excess of $ one million liquid. Even a patrolman can amass $1 mil, counting real estate in 25 years.
Even a patrolman? I was a patrolman and I know of 6 or 7 other patrolmen who have a net worth well in excess of 1 million. The other poster was right. Hes not taxing you on your net worth, but annual income.
Anonymous said...
"Eleven years after former Mayor Richard M. Daley demolished Meigs Field under cloak of darkness, Chicago will soon have two places where helicopters can take off and land."
...and the residents near these proposed heliports are now objecting. They're worried that an accident may send a helicopter into their houses. (A news chopper just went down in Seattle -- took off from a rooftop pad and went straight down into the street below, almost went into the Space Needle right across the street.)
We should build a general aviation field out on that Northerly Island. It'd be a lot safer, everything comes and goes out over the lake and the noise stays out there too.
The project would create lots of local jobs, right?
How about it?
3/21/2014 11:14:00 AM
Rahm says no way. The rock and roll promoters have that piece of land now and they are making money. Another reason for Daley facing the guillotine. Even a heliport would serve the City better than the pile or scrub brush there now.
Besides, someone will discover some rare species of diseased pigeon there and declare it home to an endangered species.
The word is “unsustainable.” No politician wants to say “it is unfortunate but we just cannot continue to fund many programs intended support those who won’t support themselves. Consequently, they characterize those who have paid for benefits or earned a benefit as greedy, the benefits earned as over generous. They target pensions, wage earners, job producers, home owners and others who have earned benefits,and who provide jobs, for huge increases in taxes or cuts in those benefits. Thus the flight begins and the problems spiral. The welfare state is unsustainable.
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