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Sad that he threw a shitload of money at a loser that he didn't bother vetting, Ken Griffin is packing up his poo poo and going to Florida a place where his lovely politics are the norm. https://twitter.com/royalpratt/status/1539980574445768708
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How many people does some poo poo head's hedge fund company even employee? Good riddance.
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The article says it's about 1,000 employees and that some will remain in the Chicago office they'll be keeping. My biggest annoyance with the content of that article is that Griffin effectively bought the naming rights to the MSI for a $125 million "donation". gently caress that.
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Big Black Dick posted:The article says it's about 1,000 employees and that some will remain in the Chicago office they'll be keeping. Good loving riddance, now stop polluting our drat state with your excess wealth. Maybe we can get the graduated income tax back on the ballot now and really start fixing poo poo in this corrupt, messed up state.
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Jun 23, 2022 17:13
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the naming rights thing I don't mind because trading vanity for public works is about as time honored a way to get nice things as you want, but also gently caress him and I hope that he has to trudge through feces in the next miami flood
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Oracle posted:Good loving riddance, now stop polluting our drat state with your excess wealth. Maybe we can get the graduated income tax back on the ballot now and really start fixing poo poo in this corrupt, messed up state. I forgot about the tax thing he hosed up. They should definitely take another go at it now.
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Clouseau posted:Sad that he threw a shitload of money at a loser that he didn't bother vetting, Ken Griffin is packing up his poo poo and going to Florida a place where his lovely politics are the norm.  Miami’s got like ten years, 20 years tops!
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Rod Hoofhearted posted:
And so many techbros are moving there its driving up real estate prices. Miami: the bitcoin of real estate.
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Jun 23, 2022 18:37
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Also crime rate is going up in Miami and is actually higher than Chicago these days which is supposedly one of his reasons.
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Jun 23, 2022 21:50
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Good riddance. I really don’t give a shot if rear end in a top hat millionaires want to leave our state for the south. Less of them the better.
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Clouseau posted:I forgot about the tax thing he hosed up. They should definitely take another go at it now. He'll still spend millions to beat it, just out of principle. Pritzker had the option to say gently caress You and raise taxes on everyone in 2020, but he used COVID money to cover the budget until he gets reelected. Illinois is hosed in 2023.
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The X-man cometh posted:He'll still spend millions to beat it, just out of principle. How so? Show your work.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Good riddance. I really don’t give a shot if rear end in a top hat millionaires want to leave our state for the south. Less of them the better. Can we have legislation mandating that if a millionaire leaves, they can't come back?
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Oracle posted:How so? Show your work. We have a barely balanced budget using billions of dollars of Federal Aid. Corporate profits have completely dropped off. This article thinks Illinois can last until 2024 (the state fiscal year starts in July) but that was before the stock market tanked. https://www.ctbaonline.org/reports/impending-fiscal-cliff-fy-2025
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But how was Prtizker going to unilaterally raise taxes? He needs either a referendum or legislation.
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The Dems have a supermajority, they could have pushed it through just to show people that Griffin was lying about the referendum.
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They can raise taxes whenever they want, there can just only be one tax rate for all incomes. If they had balls they’d raise taxes 1% and then promise to lower it back down for everyone making less than $400k, but only if the referendum passes.
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One of the dumber things I kept seeing pop up about the progressive tax was that “they could raise your taxes whenever they want!!!“ Definitely felt like I was fighting an uphill battle by explaining that that’s how it already works.
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borkencode posted:One of the dumber things I kept seeing pop up about the progressive tax was that “they could raise your taxes whenever they want!!!“ Definitely felt like I was fighting an uphill battle by explaining that that’s how it already works. God that pissed me off.
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I saw a sign in my neighborhood against the progressive tax that read “if a billionaire wants it, you know it’s bad.” Nearly had an aneurysm.
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borkencode posted:https://twitter.com/geoffreycubbage/status/1540050438040571908?s=21&t=ejwLLzg9-HXovCSGs-0ABw
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What do they count as serious crime? Just wondering.
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Bird in a Blender posted:What do they count as serious crime? Just wondering. In the thread he said violent crimes and property crimes. "For the 2010-2020 decade, Chicago averaged about 990 violent crimes per capita, 3407 property crimes per capita. Miami clocks in at 940 violent and 4480 property."
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Jun 24, 2022 13:28
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I assumed it was an old screen cap but the temp says 88* so it's gotta be within the last few weeks
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Zarin posted:I wonder why they don't have 2022 on there its only half over and they probably don't have the statistics on hand.
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JB is calling an abortion rights special session. It’s already (near) maximum abortion rights so probably will be stuff like public funding for clinics or doing stuff to help people come here from out of state.
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Rs (like Pence) are already calling for a national abortion ban so there will probably be language in preparation for those bills going forward if (when) Rs gain control of Congress.
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Are there protests or volunteer opportunities that folks know about?? Two summers ago Instagram was key for finding out about stuff but I’m off social media and don’t really know how to connect with my immediate community as well.
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Badger of Basra posted:JB is calling an abortion rights special session. It’s already (near) maximum abortion rights so probably will be stuff like public funding for clinics or doing stuff to help people come here from out of state. I really do appreciate our large adult governor. uggy posted:Are there protests or volunteer opportunities that folks know about?? Two summers ago Instagram was key for finding out about stuff but I’m off social media and don’t really know how to connect with my immediate community as well. Where are you in the state? There's a protest at Federal Plaza in Chicago today at 5:30, might be others local to where you are.
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I’m off the brown line, city stuff Thank you!
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Rs (like Pence) are already calling for a national abortion ban so there will probably be language in preparation for those bills going forward if (when) Rs gain control of Congress. State's Rights (except for stuff we don't agree with!) 
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Big Black Dick posted:State's Rights (except for stuff we don't agree with!) New York feeling that burn right now. Exciting times we live in! We're all idiots for letting this happen.
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How the gently caress did Susan Collins get re-elected?
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The people of Maine, much like all voters, are dumb as rocks
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The X-man cometh posted:How the gently caress did Susan Collins get re-elected? ES&S voting machines. 
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xzzy posted:New York feeling that burn right now. Whenever the public believes that both candidates are the same we tend to get very bad presidents.
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