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If you had an extra $7.5 million lying around, what would you do with it?
Cook County, Illinois, is making its guaranteed basic income program permanent after launching it as a pilot program in 2022 with the help of federal COVID-19 relief funds.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago.
“Guaranteed basic income programs have become a trend across the U.S. in recent years with more than 100 pilots launched since 2018. Mayors for Guaranteed Income grew into a coalition of 150 mayors pushing pilot programs, offering low-income participants up to $1,000 a month with no strings attached,” according to the report. “The group has pushed pilot programs that have been adopted by municipalities across the country.”
The Cook County program, at one point, was the largest publicly funded program in the U.S., receiving $42 million from the American Rescue Plan Act. The Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot gave monthly payments of $500 to 3,250 households for two years “with no strings attached,” according to the report.
How about refunding it to the taxpayers who just saw another massive tax increase at the City level and will undoubtedly see another at the county level. It's crap like this that keeps the tax burden climbing and driving earners out because the leeches have gotten too used to not actually working and being responsible for their spending habits.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
97 Comments:
MOVE out of Cook County!
The crooked will do anything to stay in power in crook county.
Everyone that can should move out of this state or at least this county.
How do we sign up? I wants somez of that’s free $
This "guaranteed basic income" has been taxpayer provided for decades, having mutated from welfare to benefits to entitlements steadily for nigh on 5 generations of moochers, with the grifters feeding off of the mass of moochers' largess as designed.
Mooch whenever and wherever and grift to the tune of double ditto.
Add to this the massive influx of so very hungry third worlders, eager to feast at this trough of taxpayer dunnings, and here we are.
Ok
Federal Government should provide NO funding for Crook County or Chicago until this bullshit is repealed. Slugs get enough money for doing nothing - no need to give them one cent more.
It's just like giving candy to children and rewarding them when they have bad behavior. They just keep expecting it. The more you give the parasites the more they want and expect. When we had the government shut down there were people screaming that if they didn't get their checks the were going to die of starvation and that they would just go to food stores and steal the food by force.
How about learning to plan ahead for a crisis. How about getting a job. There are plenty of people who are handicapped, some in wheel chairs some blind who are somehow able to work every day. Giving out free money or anything else is how the Marxist Democrats stay in power by keeping a dependency class beholden to them for their votes. It's a lot more than when they gave the voter a double sawbuck at the polling place, and the free garbage can drum. They take from you to give to them. Control and domination.
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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/trump-announces-death-national-guard-member-shot-washington/
Please keep her in your prayers, watch out for yourself and your fellow LEOs.
Off Topic:
Mayor BJ still has not condemned the shootings of the National Guard Members although Gov JB has. Could he be in Stresscon 1 at Northwestern or in Stresscon 2 just another isolated incident. We know he didn't like the feds in Chicago. The President has announced the female guard member has passed away on Thanksgiving Day.
So, low income housing & SNAP benefits aren't enough?! What a slap in the face to every hard-working American that works several jobs.
The names of the recipients need to be outed. I guarantee that their children are participating in the teen trends destroying the city.
Just another slush fund for the connected.
Skyrocket the real estate taxes and then give the money away to the people that don’t want to work another idea to make people move out of here as rapidly as they can. We went downtown the other day driving around, so many empty buildings so much open space real estate is estimating 60% vacancies. The people that live down there that bought those expensive overpriced condos are trying to sell. One guy said it took him all over one year to sell and he took a huge loss but he wanted to get the hell out of there.
This place really is bizarro world.
How about No GUARANTEED INCOME, IF THERE IS NO BALANCED BUDGET!
Easy to give money away and buy votes if you never have to account for spending.
Not one of these idiots can balance a budget including the billionaire!
But boy can the lie about it!
Raaaaaacissssst!
Question: What is going to happen if/when the fed money runs out. Will this be entirely paid for by the tax payers of Cook County? If yes, how many more net tax payers will this drive from Illinois.
Keep voting for the tards, ya'all!
I thought it was ILLEGAL to BUY VOTES
I need gambling and beer money...Where do I sign up ?
Unfortunately with the dire predictions of mass unemployment once AI is fully integrated with as many as 95% losing their jobs, guaranteed income will be necessary. Even Elon Musk acknowledges so. The future doesn’t look promising!
Guaranteed Income = Reparations by another name. More democrat insanity.
THAT is really what this is all about- BUYING VOTES. “WE Dems give you everything, WE need to stay in power, so that WE can take care of you”.
Once upon a time the only thing the government gave out for free to the poor was lard and cheese.
There is nothing in life as permanent as a temporary government program disbursing other people money
This program was launched with federal COVID $, that money is gone so yes, this is being funded 100% with COUNTY (our) money now.
The fed $ that launched this program IS gone. It's now county taxpayers funding it
I have, but unfortunately couldn’t get out of Illinois due to family reasons and you know once the county runs out of money, they’ll be asking the state to bail them out.
The Great Unwashed Democrat Welfare Voters say: Moe money. Moe money.
Just another tactic to secure the democratic vote
Downstate will be the ones paying just like they do for everything! PACE, CTA,Tollway. CPS! Keep voting Democrat for more of the same!
Um.....this is called SOCIALISM!!!!!
Every drug dealer and gangbanger plus their baby mommas will be signing up.
How many of the Cook County Board members’ or employee’s families are the ACTUAL recipients? My guess … most of them. This list should be public and relatives should be disclosed.
Just keep increasing the property taxes.
This BS never ends. SNAP, WIC, free school lunches, free backpacks and school supplies. The one that's even more irritating is LIHEAP. Total BS that people's gas charges us money every month to pay the moocher's heat. Democrats did that too. 305 ILCS 20/13.
Don’t forget $14,000 a year in Federal and State Earned Income Tax Credits - CASH! That’s right - it’s not a credit but cash sent through a tax return to low-income recipients. Payout is wayyyy above tax withholdings. It’s just another redistribution program through tax returns.
Naw, their relatives probably just work for cook county or might be the board members.
If you are a lifer child rapist from a Venezuelan prison set free and granted amnesty and then paroled by president Joe Biden et. al., can you collect the free money from the Crook County government? Are you still eligible if you get a free apartment, free SNAP, a monthly credit card with no strings attached monies, free lawyer representation paid by taxpayers but against the best interest of said taxpayers and unlimited access to free healthcare? Better guaranteed monies than the lottery that funds the schools.
I’m sick of paying for dude to get drunk/high and sell drugs on the block… how about a pilot program for drug/alcohol test at 6 am. Followed by proof of jobs applied for that week.. meet standards here’s your pack of Roman noddles seem to be what I’m going to have to eat with these taxes going up.
Did someone say socialism?
The working class who have skin in the game, keep the democrat operatives in power and finance their schemes
How much of that money goes to handling and administration costs
What about the new $25 million park house for Ogden Park at 65th & Racine?
How much money is this City/County/State going to piss away on stuff that’s not needed now?
More importantly, when is the rest of the constituency gonna vote these clowns OUT?!?!
Because he don't care. This is what the Democrats want that's why they spew the shit they do. So they can blame Trump , which they are
It is easy for a democrat to get a balanced budget. Just raise taxes and fees.
Buying votes and getting people addicted to their programs and policies. Pure evil
Those votes aren't going to buy themselves.
Many stopped voting democratic years ago, problem is they have an extensive and inclusive vote fraud organization like Joe Biden referred to, the big dummy.
Why would Conehead condemn something he agrees with?
Cook County used to be a great place to live. I grew up there. Born in Chicago.
Now, Cook County can't do anything right. But they can spend money they don't have.
As far as policing, follow the rules:
Stay fetal.
Write parkers.
No foot-feet or vehicle chases.
Look like a clown, wear pink shoes, sport a "do" piled high on your head, wear lots of bangles and long finger nails, wear your ball cap backwards and fail your drug test.
That just about covers it, doesn't it. Oh, one more thing, live for the pension!
Just another bribe coming out of your pocket. Move along, nothing to see here.
Do you think that they care.
Don’t care what cook county does as long as Shitcagoans pay their pension bills.
The below news reports is VERY RACIST !!!
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/4-more-people-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-lakeview-east-bolstering-concerns-about-surging-holdup-sprees.html
I wish my earned income had no strings attached like taxation unlike guaranteed income which is tax free. How about Cook County and Chicago considerably reduce the overall taxation on the working class giving them an equal opportunity to reach the middle class glass ceiling rising up the tide that lifts all boats.
How about we defund democrat campaign war chests first. Hey democrats lets get skins in the re-distribution re-election ploy gimmicks. Lots of untaxed democrat candidate money sitting there disrespecting the pocket book potential of the poor and illegal migrants. Give up your campaign money democrats so you can then express uncontained glee reminding taxpaying chumps they paid their fair share. Take that lobbyist's and assorted shakedown monies and give it back to disenfranchised indigenous peoples who need more sustenance than a getting paid politician. Democrats must lead the way divesting their enormous Wall Street sized political bankrolled war chests giving the oppressed hassle free money for weed dispensaries, gym shoe, off the chain urban behavior themed ocean cruise ships, gambling boats with all you can eat crab leg, and lottery tickets. Inspire change. Say their stories. Stop (income disparity) hate. Choose (income redistribution) love. It takes all of us.
So basically the ghettoitess that contribute zero to society are getting paid to spread, violence, hate, chaos, and every other anti-social problem in the county.
Any county, city, money filled out should lower the federal amount these leeches receive.
You mean Illinois?
Non of this will stop the looting. Maybe they x should cooperare with Trump.
Try this:
"Mr. President we can work with your ICE operations. Just asure us you are going after those with arrest history. In return provide federal funding to hire 2,000 more police officers over the next year to cover the shortfall"
It's called bipartasan diplomacy loosers!
I shop out of Cook County
Not a bad idea. This different from food benefits.
How many "poor recipients" are also " Peace keepers", "Deacons" at the many many "Churches, " Cousin of the Alderman's Communication Director"s Executive Assistant" ?
Saw the post about burning your leaves in protest of an innocent women lit on fire and posted it to our neighbors group chat. Forgot we added new neighbors and didn’t realize they have severe TDS. Within an hour the couple was at our door screaming at us for being…racist. Should have known better about them driving a Subaru Forrester and a Wisconsin Badger flag. Whoops, burn your leaves🍁🍂.
We your not from Chicago are Ya?
If you don't work for it, you don't appreciate it. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Healthcare in Cook County and Illinois for that matter is corrupt as hell. This is a win-win for the insurance companies (mainly BCBS) I have since moved out of state and it is a completely different ball game. I'll just bet that BCBS has Pritzker and Preckwinkle in their back pocket. The joke is on Conehead. They don't even need him. He is just their useful village idiot.
Holding up Chicago values since 1837
Funny, I had to do a captcha to get here, suspicious activity. First to inform you, you're being watched...
If they stop that program, dozens of nail shops and wig shops in the ghetto will close.
After the massive property tax hike, its like rubbing salt in your wounds
I finally woke up‼️ 😳
Malcolm X said it Best… 💯 https://youtu.be/NvNLwwNIG60
Crook County😉
Now I get a better understanding why my Property tax bill increased by 210% 🤯🤬😡🥶😤🤔
The looters take from the producers and give to the moochers.
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
1957
I've decided to move to Indiana. Fuck this bullshit! I'll save thousands in property tax and total tax. Indiana doesn't tax groceries or grocerie bags.
It’s called buying votes
This,healthcare,link,violence interrupters,clowns walking kids to school getting paid,all ways democrats buy votes from the uneducated people in cook county.
Shopping local ,beware many places do not support law enforcement,protest against ICE Agents ,Border Patrol. Do your homework before spending a penny on Western Avenue
Think it's fun now with all the woke shit and these parasites in Crook County. Just wait until white people become the minority and then the fun will really begin. Glad I won't be here
The omission of the one factor that makes all of these others possible: retail business accepting payment no matter what it's source.
Remember those food stamps, a booklet of them, tear off at check out, being the means of payment? Not plastic cards.
And public assistance checks, actual paper checks, via the usps, had to be cashed at currency exchange?
And subsidized housing meant the cha?
Nothing of our current system of default moocherism could work without retailers accepting the sales revenue so smoothly that the appearance of the customers' moocher income is clearly displayed by the method of payment required.
Moocherism is the chosen path to globalists bringing the peasants to heel.
How much of that is going to illegals and how much is going right back to the politician scum?
But they will tax your retirement check !
Free Healthcare for immigrants who enter our country illegally in Colorado. Do programs like this incentivize immigrants to enter illegally?
https://www.cpr.org/2025/11/24/undocumented-immigrants-free-health-care-insurance-cuts/
Article tries to say that health insurance companies pay for this free program through fees, but a deep dive shows the fees are paid by premiums that are paid by US citizens.
Yeah I know it's Colorado but does Illinois hide this too?
Only because there wasn't cell phones and health care available at the time. Are big slurp root beers available on SNAP?
So glad I moved out of Illinois when I retired!!
Worked Special Employment in the late 1980s-early 1990s. At that time, in Cabrini Green, saw many families that were on “the gubmint dime” for already three -3- generations. Grandma, Mom, Daughter…..all for the childrens. Can’t imagine how many generations we are on now, 35 years later. As the gubmint mandatorily takes MY hard-earned money at a rate of 24-27% each and every year.
Tell your new asshole neighbors to fuck off and move
100% correct. Section 8 housing was brand new once, then look at it later
The left doesn't have a problem with calling it that anymore. They elected a "democratic socialist," whatever that is, as NYC mayor.
The modern democrat has embraced communism, whether they realize/admit it or nor, and communism is the religion of the malcontent. These people hate the U.S. and everything it stands for. Their goal is to totally burn it down.
"We will bury you"
- Nikita Khrushchev
My Mt. Greenwood house goes on the market Feb. 1, 2026. Already bought a place in a state south of Illinois, out in the country. Looking forward to being gone from this shithole.
..which led to the creation of a state called "Wisconsin"...
Stole 42 million in Federal Covid money for something that they are now funding with 7 million? Chicago math at work again...
TIME to FOIA the payee list on this scam. I'm hearing a few of the JACKSON FAMILY made the list. AND NO they don't go by JACKSON SURNAME.
Ubi Est Mea?
Gary In. is beautiful this time of year.
I’m a firm believer in the Chicago motto according to Mike Royko: Where’s mine ?
A snapshot of this
Program Feature Details
Monthly Payment $500
Duration Through all of 2026
Budget Allocated $7.5 million
Past Participants 3,250 households (in 2022–2023)
Application Timeline Finalized mid-to-late 2025
*Eligibility Criteria Still under review
Approval Required Yes – By County Board after review
It’s funded by the Cook County “equity” fund & Eligibility Requirements “still under review.” Yeah, no chance this is being abused. Shit like this that’s funded by tax dollars needs to have a public list of recipients. If you have a public job & your salary can be publicly disclosed so should this. In fact, anyone receiving SNAP or any government assistance should be publicly searchable. It’s not a matter of shaming anyone. I find no shame in public assistance for anyone who truly needs it. It’s a measure of being able to search out the fraud. Also someone do the math: 3250 people at $500 a month is 1,625,000/month x 12=19,500,000. $7.5 million is allocated. Unless they are cutting the program by two-thirds, the math doesn’t add up and we know Cook Co. never likes to cut anything that buys votes.
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