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The States: Mad Scientist Laboratories of Democracy

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Approaching the second straight year with no budget for the State of Illinois.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160628/news/160628983/

It all comes down to school funding. The Republican Governor Rauner wants to only add 240 Mil to education. Democratic House Leader Madigan wants 750 Million, with 350 mil of that going to the Chicago Public Schools and CPS Pension.

Rauner claims it's a bailout for CPS. Madigan claims Rauner's holding it up just because he can.


It's a political dick waving contest where there are no winners.
 
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And.... we have a budget!

Kinda.

Sorta.


The Illinois legislature kicked at a can and passed a compromise bill to keep the finances flowing as they were for six more months. There *still* isn't a full and proper 2017 budget, so Illinois has now entered the second year of no budget.

At what point does Illinois become "too big to fail" and has the US Government intervene?
 
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aparch said:
And.... we have a budget!

Kinda.

Sorta.


The Illinois legislature kicked at a can and passed a compromise bill to keep the finances flowing as they were for six more months. There *still* isn't a full and proper 2017 budget, so Illinois has now entered the second year of no budget.
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So you basically did a CR without calling it that.
 
Kepler said:
So you basically did a CR without calling it that.
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There was additional money added to help boost the "poor" school districts state wide (+250 Mil, 100 Mil to Chicago Public Schools). CPS gets a slice of that because some of their schools qualify legitimately and there was no "bailout" of CPS.

And, if I heard the radio right this morning, there was also a line buried in the compromise that funding sources tapped into last year don't need to be replenished right away.
 
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aparch said:
Details of the Stopgap Budget:

http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/budget-bills-pass-illinois-house-amid-last-minute-drama/


I get the feeling someone like John Oliver could spend a whole half hour lampooning this whole debacle, and it still wouldn't be enough time.
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One of the Big Three did a bit with a lottery winning couple who didn't get paid, and then a follow up about how when they got paid the social services that their jobs depend on got cut. It was very funny.
 
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IIRC, DC has no grace on the speed cameras. 31 in a 30 means a fine.

@eunyangnbc: According to AAA, speed camera citations in DC are up 84%. City earned more revenue from those tickets in 4 months than in all of 2014.
 
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joecct said:
IIRC, DC has no grace on the speed cameras. 31 in a 30 means a fine.

@eunyangnbc: According to AAA, speed camera citations in DC are up 84%. City earned more revenue from those tickets in 4 months than in all of 2014.
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I'm so happy that those are illegal here. Our state supreme court ruled that a ticket cannot be issued based upon a camera.
 
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IN might just get themselves a Democratic governor.

The ideal of course would be Pence starting a domino chain where GOP candidates flee their safe seat to try to move up and Peter Principle themselves out of jobs all the way up the ladder, but unfortunately it doesn't look like that is at all likely unless somebody does something really stupid.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Well with the possible exceptions of Conn and Mass, NJ probably has the most expensive average property in the country.
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This is the house we lived in from 1954 -1967

My parents bought it for ~$20,000 and sold it for $29,900. It is now worth something in the high $400,000's. It has been remodeled. The driveway has been raised to street level (ours had about a 3' - 4' grade drop to the garage. It made it interesting when a monsoon rolled in before we installed a drain line to the back yard. Also, somebody raised the roof on the right side. All we had was an attic). Taxes are around $13K.

This is our second house, which the family owned from 1967 - 2009. My parents bought it for $50,500 and my Mom sold it for about $735K. Only structural thing that changed was vinyl siding was added in the mid 80s. Taxes here are almost $15K. BTW, Dick Nixon's office was right down the street.
 
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joecct said:
This is the house we lived in from 1954 -1967

My parents bought it for ~$20,000 and sold it for $29,900. It is now worth something in the high $400,000's. It has been remodeled. The driveway has been raised to street level (ours had about a 3' - 4' grade drop to the garage. It made it interesting when a monsoon rolled in before we installed a drain line to the back yard. Also, somebody raised the roof on the right side. All we had was an attic). Taxes are around $13K.

This is our second house, which the family owned from 1967 - 2009. My parents bought it for $50,500 and my Mom sold it for about $735K. Only structural thing that changed was vinyl siding was added in the mid 80s. Taxes here are almost $15K. BTW, Dick Nixon's office was right down the street.
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Everyone says I have ferociously high property taxes for MN...over $7k. But yeah, those are crazy high.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Note to self: don't be a Wisconsin farmer. Its a good thing they have Walker in charge.
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It's an old map, it's possible those have changed.

That was the one area that made no sense from the pop density POV. It makes sense that property taxes are higher if you have lots of infrastructure to pay for. But I don't think rural Wisconsin does, unless you need really expensive roads to transport cheese.
 
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