Masked Marauder

I really have to commend Pat Quinn and our elected officials for taking up this extremely important matter. Sure, we can't pass a budget and have a $5 billion backlog of bills we aren't paying, but i...

Wow. What a highly innovative suggestion. Raise taxes - who would have ever thought of that? Higher taxes will chase productive people/businesses out of this state. We don't have a very competit...

Denials from politicians mean nothing anymore. ...

What is it like to be so much smarter than everyone else? It must be quite a burden. The way you love to throw out insults, particularly calling people "stupid", I can tell the stress and responsibi...

Spook, if you ever see one of these individuals damaging property, harassing people or committing criminal acts other than harmlessly selling drugs, just ask them if they are non-violent offenders. I...

Wow, what a highly intellectual and well-reasoned comment. You are quite proficient in the art of name-calling. Sounds like you are the one who has no clue about Chicago politics. No thuggery? W...

Subsidies are not free. The state/schools are not "reducing" the costs of construction at all, rather they are shifting them to another party (taxpayers). They are probably dipping into the state's ...

Typical response from a brainwashed liberal who deals only in name-calling and emotion-based arguments. I'm not surprised that you didn't address anything I said, the subject matter is probably a lit...

Did you ever consider changing careers or taking steps to improve yourself and make yourself more marketable? Or is it government's responsibility to provide you with these things?...

There are volumes and volumes of empirical evidence that show minimum wage increases do in fact have an adverse effect on employment. It is a fact that the vast majority of minimum wage earners are t...

This story was written in way that is typical of the media. You act as if the State just woke up one day and had this financial situation foisted upon it. Our politicians pretend that they were inno...

I see. So the NRA is contributing to the starvation of children by taking their convention elsewhere. How cruel. You make no mention of this city's increasingly high taxes and fees and the absolute...

Obviously you haven't been paying attention to anything in the bill. If you did, you would know that this monstrosity doesn't take place until 2013 or 2014. I love how you attribute all opposition t...

The health care bill will produce the next Bill Gates??!! That is laughable, however I think you should apply for a spot on Obama's propagandist economic team. You know, the same team that says they...

Run along. Adults are talking....