STATION EDITORIAL

Posted January 6, 2025

This is a station editorial, I’m Randal J. Miller, station president.

This editorial is all about spending YOU and I’s tax dollars in Springfield and Washington.

In Springfield, Governor J-B Pritzker got re-elected in 2022 claiming that the state was flush with cash, had a rainy-day fund, and that Happy Times were here again.  This is despite pausing until AFTER the election, another motor fuel tax hike making this tax the SECOND highest in the country after California.

Well, Happy Times are NO longer here again.  The state was using federal COVID money to make its budget look flush with cash, knowing that money would be gone.  But, it got him re-elected.

Today, while Pritzker continues to pass out money for things like municipal parks and the like, he’s warned state agencies cuts are coming as the state is 3-billion (with a b) dollars in the red.

This winter’s state budget address should be a good one.

And, in Washington, President-elect Trump is trying to defy the long-entrenched government establishment with his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency”.   President Eisenhower warned as he was leaving office in 1961 of what he called the “military industrial complex” controlling the government.  64 years later, it’s as though the federal government is so big that it’s pretty much controlling things no matter who is president.   Let’s hope the “DOGE” agency as it’s called, can get federal government spending under control as 43 cents of every dollar they spend, is BORROWED.

When it comes down to it, it’s ALWAYS about the money because it helps them get re-elected, whether they’re in Springfield or Washington.

That’s our opinion.   We welcome yours.  Our e-mail address is editorial@randyradio.com.