Look! Free Money
Robbing Peter to pay off the CTU:
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget proposal includes a gift for Chicago Public Schools: He is recommending that the city take an unprecedented amount out of special taxing districts so CPS can cover its costs and send some cash back to the city to help it end the year in the black.
School board members say they believe CPS will receive more than $500 million — meaning Johnson will declare a record $1 billion TIF surplus. This would give CPS enough money to make it through the school year without massive cuts. And it would give the city some of what it needs to cover a $175 million municipal pension payment that the district balked at paying without help.
Johnson is making this proposal after the partly elected, partly appointed school board dealt him a political blow in August when members refused to include the possibility of borrowing so they could cover the pension payment.
So the city isn't broke, they're just mismanaged. The CTU wanted to float a bunch of unnecessary bonds so as to allow connected bankers to make a shit-ton of money in fees and such.
A few points:
- if there is a $1 billion surplus, shouldn't some of the outrageous tax hikes be rescinded or ::gasp:: money be refunded to taxpayers?
- if Conehead can raid this fund to pay for teacher pensions, why can't he raid it to pay Police/Fire/Laborer shortfalls that are endangering the viability of those funds?
Remember, teachers pay something like 2% of their salary to their pensions with taxpayers picking up the remainder of the cost. Cops (and firefighters?) pay something like 11% because of course they do. They can't strike and hold children hostage as a negotiating ploy.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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The democrats have fucked up Chicago so bad that there is no amount of conservative intervention that could lift the City up out of the cesspool that has been created for it, short of ridding the City of every voting democrat.
Amazing thing on this is however did our current grifters in county and city governments manage to persuade the previous dinosaur grifters who amassed this TIF hog pot of taxpayers' hard earned monies to submit to this wanton grifting of dinosaur swag grifters?
We definitely need a federal forensic audit, and Brandon and the so called “governor” in cuffs locked up,
Then the mounted unit, canine, and other units shouldn’t be reduced and we should be allocated to have an authorized strength of 12500 again.
My Wife Side Of Her Family Has
Several CPS Teachers.In It.
When We First Started Dating
They Ask Me Way I Became Cop
In Snotty Way. And My Reply Was
Those That Can Will Do.
Those Who Cannot Will Teach,
After That I Drop The Mike And
Told Them Try The Veal And Tip
The Waitress.
Keep throwing money at failure🤪🤪
Speaking of "free" money. How much do you have to be playing to have to report this on your taxes?
Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4 million via gambling, 2024 tax returns show
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/10/15/jb-pritzker-tax-returns-gambling-casino
If it gets at least one child proficient at grade level math it's worth it right? Last I checked most schools had none.
This is the type of shit the DOJ should be looking at.
World class incompetence!
Can't balance a budget and doesn't have a clue about cutting costs.
Just a socialist experiment brought to us by the CTU.
A political organization poisoning kids futures.
Oh for the day when D.O.G.E. style auditing of city, county and state books compels a multitude of minions to try to conceal the decades long hanky panky which such an audit would expose.
Perhaps a legion of Big Balls youngsters would be the releasing of the kracken so long overdue.
I thought there were rewards for results. Guess I was wrong.
In o th er news, Dragon Breath Lady coming to a shift in 017! Sorry for yall hahahaha
Where's Bojangles going to get the 200 million in retro pay for firefighters or the other large amount owed to VRI and Obozo detail participants.
Give the money to the retired coppers.
Deporting all the Mississippi Migrants who come here because Illinois has the best freebies would be a great start.
Are those real estate tax bills released yet? How much of an increase in there? How about a homeowner class action suit against the city/state against mayor and Governor about fiscally irresponsible giveaways of our mandatorily taken tax money?
Fantastic!
Here is way to save taxpayers billions. They have AI schools in Texas and other places replacing the indoctrination specialists aka teachers,and the children are actually learning skills in 2 hours Even liberal news is touting this program!
https://alpha.school/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJsnlSiyH3Y
Fund the pension! Notice how our very own "Johnny" has not even talked about this. Hey John you once ad a relationship with Pro-Police President Trump maybe reach out and call him, ask if he could help fund the pension for us! Bueller! Bueller!
You have an interesting typing style
You get an A+ for that response 😂
And yet idiot liberals keep voting for democRats. No money for the pensions tho. Blue Flu
Haaaa Love it
Most of the CTU teachers need to get into planet fatness, or La fatness on their free time. They certainly can’t teach well, we all know that. Chicagos very own children don’t really care about Lenin or ho chi men. Maybe the kids in oak park or Evanston do!😂
If you want to just waste money, spend it on something cool, and fun. Let the police drive around in Corvettes, or huge armored vehicles. Or have a contest among all city employees to see who does the least amount of work, per day per week, per year, per lifetime. Or set up a pool to bet on just how much Conehead is going to loose the next election by. Or how many Twinkies and Ding Dongs Pritzker can polish off in one sitting. Just don't waste it on more to education.
Stfu and seek some help
When did fat boy have the time to go gamble that kind of money? How is it that we are just now hearing about it?
Where did he do this gambling?
We got more questions than answers!
Boycott every radical un-american corrupt political in all of Illinois. Turn your back on em.
$1.50 (or less or more but likely more than ever less) on every Illinois delivery being proposed. How on earth can anyone think Democrats are great for the economy?
He likes gambling with tax payer money every single day.
More money to waste
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
How close are they to being a criminal enterprise?
On Thursday Channel 2 News led off with the budget story. They showed a clip of the mayor saying that this budget was a long time coming. The reporter said that a balanced budget must be council approved by Dec. 31st. No information about the amount of cash involved or where it would come from by the mayor or Channel 2. Channel 2 wasted our time. What clowns.
It's a free country, go become a teacher and stop fucking crying about it, or better yet if you love capitalism so much go start a business. Bunch of fucking cry babies in this department. Try this: be a fucking man and make it happen.
AGAIN!!....Stacy Davis Gates makes over $273,000 but doesn’t pay her water bills
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/stacy-davis-gates-makes-over-273000-but-doesnt-pay-her-water-bills/
Why do we have TIFs? It seams that it’s just for politicians pet projects. Do away with TIFs and there is enough money for regular budget
Johnson is simply a FAIL who FLAILS around trying to find success, but only finds FAILURE.
The city collects over a billion a year in TIF funds. The board of education gets over 55% of tax revenue.
https://www.civicfed.org/blog/setting-record-straight-how-tax-increment-financing-tif-actually-interacts-chicago-public
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/without-reforms-pension-insolvency-will-eat-chicago-alive/
Attorney General Pam Bondi needs to look into Brandon Johnson mayoral office using extortion to prevent Ald Conway from clearing homeless drug infested camps in the parks and on the public way. Jason Lee is the name of the mayoral aide/minion.Was he the same aide who was arrested on a warrant or was that another minion from Brandon’s office.
Still waiting on mine. Difficult to plan for Thanksgiving travel, holiday spending, & any winter vacation when you have no idea how huge the 2nd property tax installment will be - already more than 2 months late!
Judge orders federal agents to wear body cams in Chicago area
ICE - Welcome to Chicago !
As I recall, that taxable amount would be after deducting gambling losses.
And with taxpayer money, he doesn't gamble at all. He plays heads I win, tails you lose.
John in Indy
Who’s that ?
Yes, we need to eliminate paying illegal aliens, and cut all the free government programs.Lets start by cutting all bloated city dept by 20 percent.
cps since Paul Vallas discovered millions of dollars of waste. 100,000's missing lap tops,sexual misconduct covered up,schools kept open with full staff with 25% of students. These DEI politicians,school administrators are destroying Chicago. During covid19 who had contract for the free food programs. who received kickbacks,donations??? Violence interrupters?? who supervises them,where,when are they assigned. Fatman the gov. had a photo op with a dude wanted on felony warrants. That was his idea of a success story . Pritzker ain't no DEI, he just buys his elections.
how many cps teachers live outside the city ??? voter fraud ???
look at your peoples gas bill , we are forced by governor jb prickster to donate $5 a month to subsidize the poor??? I have my thermostat on 68 degrees , many we subsidize have it on 76 degrees with the gas range on boiling water to get humidity . He's the thief (king fat man) not Trump. also Kamala was appointed like a Queen , not Trump.
order the alder creature , violence interupters and mayor along with his body guards to wear body cameras
Conehead is never going to give back any tax dollars. No matter how large the surplus. CTU will get the bulk of this. Illegal aliens will get the rest. And as long as the alder-thieves are getting some they may ask for more....
Who the hell is that?! White shirt?
Conehead was heard to say..."What? Theres more money to spend?"
Retired here...I was OTJ when thge cameras came out. I hated the idea of being filmed and later judged. But the truth is, BWC's have helped the police way more than they have hurt. For instance the public can now see what fools people in the CPS educated ghetto's of Chicago. The police almost always come out on top if they are doing their job correctly...
It was 13, 500 when I was on the streets kid. just saying....
yea,,,, but do they have to turn them on???
Example of how liberals use the courts to weaken law enforcement
The property tax bill in Florida is Sweet! In Chicago my bill was rediculous and 77percent of it was for the board of we can’t teach education. Then throw in private school tuition because the public high schools nearby had police cars assigned to dismissal. Get out of this city and county when you can.
Fuck this. Would cancel Amazon Prime right away. Amazon should sue the city.
If you allow yourself to get fucked over, either by Lightfooted fucked or Vanilla Ice, you deserve it.
Well it’s not free money because TIF money is what is used to upgrade parks, pave streets, fix potholes, trim trees and anything else discretionary the alderman wishes. Money will go from doing those things to paying off CPS and CTA. CPS needs an audit.. 11 billion dollar budget.
Close to retirement and then you do dumb shit like this
https://wgntv.com/western-suburbs/former-suburban-police-chief-officers-accused-of-selling-guns-from-evidence-room/
Lock her up
How about the illegal that got a job as a police officer in the suburb of Chicago. He carries a gun at work and enforces laws of a country that he's not even a citizen of. These assholes don't even want American citizens to have guns. What about California's politicians who just decided that families of illegals in California who were arrested by ice need assistance so they're giving them money for rent and bills. I'm not sure what's wrong with half of America, but they may as well kill themselves now because by supporting this crap, you're committing suicide.
I already get every package not from a city dept sent to my house(s) in various OTHER states, haha (in my BEST Simpsons Nelson voice) every gas, grocery, other fuel, pretty much any purchase is made out-of-state.
I don't work for a system thats corrupt and fails it's c hildren..Bunch of greedy Johnsons minions.
If you haven't been putting money aside for it, that's on you.
Illegal Immigrants can become school superintendent in a Leftist world.
OT:
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/ice-arrests-undocumented-immigrant-hanover-park-police-officer
R.I.P. Tomorrow 17 October will be 40 years since Cook County Sheriffs Police Investigator Michael Ridges was shot and killed in the Line of Duty on a Traffic Stop in Prospect Heights. Best Friends since Grade School, that day will always be remembered. His dad John was a CPD Captain and his brother Jack was a highly respected Homicide Sgt.
Body cameras are horrible. Put body cameras on judges and lawyers during 402 conferences... see lawyers and judges don’t want that and neither do working police that stop THUGS.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
May he RIP. Glad he is not forgotten. Pipers alley in Prospect Heights was always a tough area to work, bunch of illegal brownies live up there and become jag offs real quick . Ice was just up there for a few days cleaning out the shithole.
Hey you fuck head Gene Roy, just saw your fucking interview on that POS TV station, channel 9. Shut the fuck up asshole and crawl back under the fucking rock you came out from. If it was not for your wife's family you would have been a rent a cop.
you forgot that teachers pensions are compounded as well !
how do you take money from tax and give it to another?
tif is supposed to be for that district only, CPS is supposed to be for that district only...
sue the shit out of conehead..
TIFs are the biggest theft of tax money ever devised in this city, thats saying a lot.
How did the Hanover Park Officer get past the screening?
According to Gov. JB he won this money playing cards. Some pretty high stakes games with high stakes people.
1. Specify "they". However lengthy a listing will be.
2. Define and specify "criminal enterprise", ditto on lengthy. And including specific statutes of laws relevant.
3. Re submit your query.
TIF funds are accumulated skimming off the top of tax revenues, via the annointed areas declared to be needful of said extra boosting of fundings.
As in every tax relevant formula contrived in our region, city, county and state, prime factors of well known perfidities trump any claimed honest benefits to said populations of so annointed areas.
1. Mid terms: increase MAGA in house, dominate MAGA in senate, then and only then can the real fun begin.
There is no other way.
Be realistic, he probably got away with it long before he was close to retirement. It’s like smoking pot. You don’t forgo it for 28 years and suddenly decide to try your luck 2 months from retirement. He was doing it for years and felt confident he hadn’t gotten caught all that time. Sorry, but I never feel sorry for guys like this if they actually are guilty. They bring shame on the profession.
I’d say they’ve passed the margin years ago.
Still haven’t gotten mine. I keep checking. And 05:32, how can you put aside for a number you have no idea what the increase will be? Like many who pay, these last 2 mayors have made it impossible. In 20 years, I’ve never fallen short, but it sure would be nice to not get a bill due 2 weeks before Christmas.
Signed, Guy Whose Wife is a Teacher
Governor DiSantis in Florida has been trying to get the legistrators to rescind the State portion of the property taxes( eliminated). As far as the local part he is sending his people out to do a forensic audits. Never happen in Illinois. Too much graft at stake.
And offenders were caught by 016 personnel as they traveled back to Chicago. Wearing “police type” uniforms as they were brought in. Hope they rotted in prison.
McCormick Place and surrounding area, a TIF. Archer and Central TIF is actually Archer and Central, east to Pulaski, then south to 67th Street, and probably more.. Billions of dollars in TIF's annually to be spent at the will of the mayor. No city council involvement.
Does he hear about it when you go on vacation…you mean unlike Presidents, Governors can’t go on vacation… how about have an adult conversation
Fatass pritsker looked like a matador wearing the bulletproof vest in his little video clip he sent to that punk Kimmel. If Chicago is so safe, and he likes to gamble, maybe he should play some craps at 51st and wood? Nothing to worry about there. He can get a few gyros across the street!
Those suburban cops should have stuck with selling opossum meat on the black market !😂
There is no extra money, it is projected revenue, a pipe dream
two offenders got fourty years, the shooter Dwayne Coulter received life with no Parole thanks to Judge Bailey after one juror voted against the Death Penalty.
How optimistically pessimistic.
Dismiss entirely the directed focus upon the sources of this fecklessness, and then chicken little your conclusion.
Being a man and making it happen is easy, when the it happen goal is to dump your sack load.
As a wise woman once said to an idiot husband, just go bang it against a wall.
Have you ever asked AI (Gemini, Chat GPT) a question? It didn’t program itself, someone had to “train” it and believe me unless you “call out” the bias in the answers, it predominantly has a left leaning bias.
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