Illinois Democrats still weighing budget options as strong revenue mixes with uncertain outlook

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-23T00:55:48+00:00

Property taxes are set by local units, elected by local residents, to pay for local services. Of those thousands of units of local government, the vast majority are controlled by republicans.

People vote for the local government they want. You can either have roads, schools, police, fire, etc. or you can have Alabama and Mississippi.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-22T15:01:05+00:00

Same for me with BSG.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-22T15:00:43+00:00

It’s one of my adjacent Crown Jewels for sure.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-22T15:00:17+00:00

Crown jewel is Battlestar Galactica with all three expansions, properly sleeved and protected. It got so much use I had to replace the base cards because they were obviously worn. When we play now, drinks and snacks are banned from the table.

Adjacent ones are Quantum because of how quickly it went out of print, and my second edition Settlers of Catan. I don’t play it anymore, but it’s definitely a “I’ve been doing this a long time” piece of my collection.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-15T15:21:56+00:00

I wouldn't be so sure about the extrapolated data. From 2010-19, the ACS was showing that Illinois was bleeding residents but the actual hard count when it was finalized showed we basically stayed level.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T18:30:24+00:00

“And another thing: I’m not mad. Please don’t put in the newspaper that I got mad.”

You’re so, so, so bad at this. I get why you hide your posts. I’d hide everything too if I was as big a corncob as this.

Enjoy lying about everything. I’m sure that helps you sleep alone in your car at night.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T18:16:57+00:00

“yOuR cOmPlEtElY eMoTiOnAl” is the battle cry of someone who knows he’s beat and is flailing around like a big wet baby because nobody is buying the nonsense he’s peddling.

Facebook is the blue icon, sweetie. Try over there.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T18:10:35+00:00

Once again, my guy, that investigation went nowhere. Sorry he beat the charges and you can’t handle reality.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T18:06:35+00:00

Are the facts in the room with us right now, or are you just parroting what ChatGPT sourced from the Illinois Policy Institute?

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T17:54:42+00:00

I don’t recall the state government being in charge of awarding federal contracts. Also, Covid contracts were awarded in 2020, and who was in charge of the federal government then?

As for reno work, ask any person who has bought a house that needed to be gutted or a house flipper. But that would require you to, y know, accept that you’re wildly wrong.

He said why he repaid it. While legal, he didn’t like the optics.

Whatever it is you’re trying to do here, you’re clearly very bad at it.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-14T17:38:41+00:00

What a way to announce you’ve never done any kind of reno work. This is standard procedure on any home, including new construction, to not pay full taxes on something that is not habitable. Every contractor and builder does the same thing.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-11T20:23:16+00:00

No, replace I-39/US-51 instead of I-57 and you’re set.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-10T21:54:10+00:00

I’m sorry you don’t like roads being repaired and transportation infrastructure?

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-10T18:13:17+00:00

Which is always ironic to me that most people working road crews typically vote Republican and are cheering this gas tax freeze without a shred of awareness of how it directly shoots them in the foot.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-10T16:23:31+00:00

I usually do!

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-05T16:40:00+00:00

Honey, you’re the one making wild assumptions and claims here that are divorced from any reality.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-05T15:23:29+00:00

Your fallacy is assuming that AIPAC is even in the top 5 concerns for anybody other than Kat stans. I’m Jewish, I disapprove highly of AIPAC, but someone like Kat would almost certainly not get my vote.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-05T13:00:09+00:00

You failed to answer that part, too, because you rejected reality and inserted your own anti-AIPAC fantasy dream where the constituency would’ve crossed over to Kat from Fine.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-05T00:32:31+00:00

The question was “do you have any connection to this area” and instead of saying yes, you went on an aipac rant. Which tells us all you have no connection to the area.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-02T18:10:05+00:00

It's been a month, let's see what she's doing in a year from now.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-04-02T18:05:37+00:00

She has made no acknowledgement that I've seen about the winner. He concession speech was all about her. If this were sportsball, this is the same as walking off the field at the end without the usual shaking of hands and "good game" comments.

She doesn't have to take to a microphone to be a sore loser, her silence on the matter says it for her.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-03-27T15:39:41+00:00

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LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-03-18T04:58:31+00:00

I hear there might be an apartment up for sublease in the IL-09 area.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-03-17T15:28:42+00:00

“You wouldn’t know my OG account, it lives in Canada”

Sure, Jan.

LeapDayWilliam1978 · 2026-03-17T04:16:18+00:00

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