CHICAGO – Democrat State Rep. Greg Harris isn't just any House member, he's House Speaker Mike Madigan's new Majority Leader – a powerful position. If the Majority Leader supports a legislative effort, there's a good chance a bill will make it out of Rules, be assigned to a Democrat-controlled House committee, and onto the House floor.
So when Rep. Greg Harris called last week for Illinoisans to "organize for healthcare as a right," it's a call that gets attention. With super majorities in both chambers and a supportive governor, Leftist lawmakers are emboldened for Illinois to head deeper into Leftist effort – such as universal healthcare.
At the federal level, Democrat presidential candidates are calling for Medicare for all, as are Democrats in the U.S. House like first term Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. New York is considering the option of universal health care for its residents. It isn't absurd to think Illinois could be next.
SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM
Communism is socialism all grown up
He’ll be speaking about financial options…. how is he qualified to do that???? He is part of the reason the state has a 200+ unfunded pension debt and continued many years of budget deficits, and deficit spending totaling over 100 billion dollars.
, Illinois has a monstrous state debt, Moody’s bond credit rating just above junk, an ongoing budget deficit even though there is a constitutionally mandated balanced budget amendment, according to several studies Illinoisans are the #1 most heavily taxed people in all 50 states, record numbers of people are leaving from the state because of the cruel tax burden, businesses are leaving the state because of the state debt and oppressive over-regulation, Illinois’ small business owners say the state’s business climate is worse than any other in the nation, in 2018 the state population declined by over 45,000 people and the declines continue to get bigger from one year to the next., cities are raising taxes and fees to repair and rebuild roads, and other infrastructure needs. According to a recent report by Moody’s Investors Service, Illinois’ unfunded pension liabilities equaled 601% of the total state revenues in 2017, a U.S. record. The state’s financial mismanagement makes it impossible for localities to depend on the state for meaningful financial help.
Harris is in my opinion, a deceiver and an immoral person who likes to buy favors with socialist freebies on the backs of the taxpayers. He knows socialism only works until you run out of other people’s money, but doesn’t care. His actions and newspeak !
The term “newspeak” was coined by George Orwell in his 1949 anti-utopian novel 1984. In Orwell’s fictional totalitarian state, Newspeak was a language favored by the minions of Big Brother and, in Orwell’s words, “designed to diminish the range of thought.”. Newspeak was characterized by the elimination or alteration of certain words,…
The reason you never hear Harris say financial responsibility or huge state debt, its the white elephant in the room but always totally ignored by those who like to vote for freebies to buy votes and the power that comes with it.
I believe these irresponsible actions are done on purpose to weaken the state and make the state constitution vulnerable… designed to create the installation of an oppressive socialist/communist govt possible.
You have heard about hooked on phonics; well there are none so blind as those “entitled voters who are hooked on freebies. Greed blinds as nothing else does….
The Left marches on- and successfully it appears.
Funding???? Alfred E. Neuman said it best What, Me Worry?
correction: 200+ BILLION unfunded pension debt.