Issues

Here are my plans to help restore this great state! 

1. ECONOMY: The state of Illinois Gross State Product is 782 billion with a population of 12,671, 821 people. There are 375 businesses. Manufacturing produces 101 billion dollars. Chemical manufacturing 16.6 billion. Food manufacturing 14.4 billion. Machinery manufacturing 13.6 billion. Fabricated metal products 10.5 billion. Plastics and rubber 6.8 billion. Transportation 6.7 billion. Computer and electronics 6.4. billion. The economy is the worst in the U.S. behind Kentucky. We have suffered business and job losses due to the COVID mandates. We need to reinvest in businesses. Attract industry back to Illinois with tax incentives and subsidies (although what they produce must offset the tax incentives). More companies equates to more tax revenue. Jobs equals spending to stimulate the economy.

2. TAXES: Illinois has a flat tax of 4.95% ( individual income tax rate) 9.50 corporate tax rate. State sales tax rate is: 6.25. Under Pritzker Illinoians are paying $2,165 more in taxes. We need to prevent any greater tax spending. We need to trim our budget of needless spending to prevent the raising of taxes (once again). We need to be good stewards in terms of spending. 

3. JOBS: Currently there are 8 million people working in Illinois.The per capita disposable income is $56,839 (14 out of 50 states) Chicago produces 77% of the state's wages. The poverty rate is 12%. We need to attract more Manufacturing to Illinois; however, the unrealistic standards of the EPA/the State and the ridiculous taxes have driven Illinoians away in droves. We need to provide more training for Cyber/AI, which is the next generation of job employment, and inexpensive trade schooling. In addition, affordability of college.

4. PENSIONS: 26% of the Illinois budgets take up the Illinois budgets for taxes. Illinois is facing a pending pension collapse with some public pensions funded at only 20% Most Unions invest in hedge funds. If the economy and the markets suffer, so will Union investment returns. The standard return rate is 6%. We need to cut off nepotism and cronyism in government. For far too long Illinois politicians hand out pensions for political favors including themselves. We need to reduce the government and restructure the public pensions. Pensioners deserve protected pensions. Not to have their union funds treated as a loan bank with no returns.

5. UNIONS: 12.5 billion dollars in residential and non-residential construction. There is a cut in Union work because manufacturing, capital projects and building have been cut due to the economy. There is no money to build homes or produce goods. Manufacturing has fled to China and Mexico because of wages. We need to rebuild our economy. Currently we pay $50,000 more just in lumber costs. We need to reinvest in infrastructure and building. When you do that manufacturing follows. We need to make more in America and Illinois, attracting industry with incentives to invest in Illinois. 

6. FARMS: Illinois crops are heavily corn and soybean products. Farmers are under threat over climate change. Farm lands want to be used for solar and wind farms. 30% of farms are dedicated to the production of ethanol for fuel. 50% is dedicated to trade. If those in charge in Springfield succeed, thousands of farms will shut down, including their support such as refineries, truck drivers, and gas stations. We need to protect and reinvest in farms for more output not less. It's a valuable commodity, but more importantly, farmers feed the world.

7. SCHOOL CHOICE: The Illinois public school system (prekindergarten through grade 12) operates within districts governed by locally elected school boards and superintendents. Illinois has 2,072,880 students enrolled in a total of 4,266 schools in 1,070 school districts. There are 135,701 teachers in the public schools, or roughly one teacher for every 15 students, compared to the national average of 1:16. There was roughly one administrator for every 278 students, compared to the national average of one administrator for every 295 students. On average Illinois spent $12,288 per pupil in 2013, which ranked it 14th highest in the nation. About 75% of real estate taxes are dedicated to school districts. Most of the school budget goes to salaries and pensions. The students are left with nothing. There are fewer schools because less people are having children. We need to restructure our spending to open the door for parents to place their children in the schools in which they choose.

8. HEALTHCARE: 25% of the Illinois population is on Medicare and Medicaid. Many are on this program and are not qualified for it. We need to overhaul our public healthcare system. We cannot afford free healthcare (look at the status of our taxes already!). We also need a better screening system prior to Medicare and Medicaid approval (so that our taxes are not being taken advantage of in a negative way). 

9. SENIOR CARE: Illinois seniors are suffering due to the lack of clinics and hospitals and the increase of medications. Currently they lack transportation to doctors, to collect their medications, or have access to food. We need to start paying our bills to Illinois doctors, hospitals, and clinics. We need travel vouchers for seniors to transport them for services and groceries. We need the right to try for medical cures. We also need to reduce the costs of medications which are absolutely unaffordable due to corruption in the pharmaceutical industry in bed with politicians.

10. VETERAN CARE: Illinois has 559,656 veterans. Illinois provides only 6 homes for veterans. One (Prince Home) only occupies 15. For too long veterans homes have been mismanaged contributing to many veteran deaths due to the spread of diseases because of poor healthcare and management. We need more funds to build new veteran nursing homes and we need housing vouchers for homeless veterans including placement for permanent homes.

11. CRIME: 1,353 homicides in 2021. Because of lax criminal enforcement (due to stringent laws and regulations on police officers that completely prevent them from doing their job), violent crimes are on the rise. Illinois is the hub of the Sinaloa drug cartel feeding drugs to all the states. Gang enrollment is up. Most violent offense including carjackings are committed by minors. Chicago is suffering the most because of lack of action by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. In Chicago alone only 25% of homicides are solved with only have of the 12% going to prison for murder. When elected I will find funding to hire more Police. Our State Police needs to go on the offensive with hundreds of more troopers assigned to task forces for: Drug interdiction on highways, undercover drug agents, State gang units, gun trace units dedicated to violent felons, cold case squads to solve open homicides, public corruption units. 

12. HB3653: This act is responsible for no-cash bail for violent offenders, including those who commit acts of domestic violence (which is why those like our current leader, oftentimes get away with no penalty while continuing acts of domestic violence- and the nepotism). We need to repeal HB3653 and replace it with a bill creating more penalties for offenders; especially sex offenders and abusers. We need stiffer sentencing guidelines giving those who offend more jail time (with counseling required), including the possibility of seeing up to 80% of their sentences. Currently, we are releasing too many of those who offend egregiously and repeatedly. We need to consider reinstating the death penalty for certain, extreme circumstances (to ward off certain behaviors, as we will be deterred from committing such acts if we know that the death penalty is a possible sentence). We need more funding for prisons, and better job placement for those who earnestly want to change when released. We need to scale down home monitoring. This program proves to be ineffective (it is so easy to slip out of ankle monitors and put it on a cat or something; it’s literally the biggest joke of the century). It is also an expensive program, and using more Police resources (equals higher taxes) as these offenders escape. 

13. DRUG AWARENESS: 3,000 overdose deaths with 20,000 calls to overdoses. Drug dealing is on the rise fueling overdoses. Fentanyl causes many of these deaths because of how potent it is. One of my family members died from a Fentanyl overdose this year. It is excruciating being witness to those who are going through addictions. I was married to a man who was a Christian Radio DJ, while going to Bible School, who was addicted to Crack-Cocaine and Methamphetamines. That world is dark… in the seizure of Fentanyl, officers are suffering from overdoses through coming in contact with drugs (in the air/breathing it in, during arrests). We need to partner with federal Police to challenge the drug cartels. We must create agency task forces with federal law enforcement to capture drug mules on our highways. We must generate harsher penalties for drug dealing offenses. We need more prevention programs in schools or in after-school programs, in order to prevent drug use.

14. ILLINOIS CORRUPTION: Illinois is the first in the nation for public corruption. They call it the “Windy City” not for the weather (although it is quite windy in that capacity as well), but for the Politicians who are all “full of it.” We need a public integrity Police investigative unit to investigate crooked politicians. We need stiffer penalties for corruption. We need to restructure our laws to trim donations from certain donors and lobbyists (E.g., Union Organizers should not be able to donate union funds to politicians… period- things have gotten way too deep in favors, tips, private payoffs, and one-party donations; when their members disagree, the leaders and organizers turn a deaf ear). We need more transparency in politicians' funding including them reporting how much they make including salaries, properties, investments and donations. Any PACS supporting them should be reported to the public. 

15. ELECTION INTEGRITY: Illinois is the breeding ground for election fraud. Under the current control, local boards have influenced elections in their favor. Currently there is a lack of enforcement in election procedures. We need to create an Election Integrity Police Unit to investigate election fraud. This unit will also conduct audits of questionable elections. We also need to create criminal guidelines and laws to prosecute crooked politicians. I fully expect my opponent to cheat (as he has in so many ways in his life)… God bless him!

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