President Trump: "If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens."
🚨 NO SURPRISE: Every single Democrat stayed seated.
Remember when the Dems/MSM spent 4 years obstructing and sabotaging Trump’s presidency, because they said Russia hacked the 2016 election?
Yeah, those same people now oppose election security and claim election fraud is a myth.
All they do is lie.
Bears Stadium talk is upon us again after @WaddleandSilvy yesterday.
Seeing some use the United Center as the argument the Bears do not need tax certainty.
Let’s break it down a little to show exactly why this example is exactly why the Bears need tax certainty to build in Arlington Heights and why Silvy’s contacts are 100% right that Indiana isn’t a leverage play…
United Center:
Market Value: $66,440,748
Taxable Value: $16,610,187
2024 Equalizer: 3.0355
2024 Tax Rate: 6.643%
Cost to build: $175,000,000
Market Value vs Cost: ~38%
Using these numbers we can estimate the 2025 property taxes to be ~$3,349,415.
Now let’s do the math on Arlington Heights with ZERO tax certainty and basing it on the original estimated cost of $2.4 Billion.
New Bears Stadium (100%):
Market Value: $2,400,000,000
Taxable Value: $600,000,000
2024 Equalizer: 3.0355
2024 Tax Rate: 9.483%
Using these numbers we can estimate the 2025 property taxes to be ~$172,713,879.
That is ~$170,000,000 more in property taxes the Bears would owe EVERY YEAR without some type of PILOT program.
Now let’s say Cook County decides to be nice even without tax certainty and values the stadium at 38% of cost like the United Center is currently.
New Bears Stadium (38%):
Market Value: $912,000,000
Taxable Value: $228,000,000
2024 Equalizer: 3.0355
2024 Tax Rate: 9.483%
Now, we can estimate the 2025 property taxes to be ~$65,631,274. That’s still ~$62,000,000 more than what the property taxes are on the United Center.
This isn’t difficult to understand why the Bears need tax certainty yet many are claiming it’s Billionaires getting handouts. It’s not the case here at all. Going to IN with the deal presented would be the handout and the Bears aren’t even asking for that.
Come up with a reasonable incremental PILOT tax guarantee and pay for the infrastructure and Bears stay.
Set it at $10,000,000 per year to start and that’s still $1,500,000 per year more than what the Rams/Chargers pay for SoFi.
Take the emotion out of it and math is math.
It is simple, yet Illinois has been dragging this along for 3 years.
#DaBears
I think it’s time we start calling a spade a spade.
The Left have a pedophilia problem.
Not only are the Dems going to Epstein island, but their woke policies and LGBTQ+ agenda are pro-pedophile.
Which side has drag show story time for kids? Which side sexualized our youth with their LGBTQ+ insanity? What do you think the “+” stands for? What’s a “minor attracted person”?
Which side left the border open and allowed human traffickers to operate? Which side denied the existence of the humanitarian crisis at the border? Which side tried to cancel the movie “Sound of Freedom”?
Which side let millions of rapists and criminals into our country? Which side is obstructing federal law enforcement from arresting/deporting foreign pedos and sex offenders? Which side lets these criminals loose on our streets?
Which side is Hollywood on? Which side is Harvey Weinstein on? Which side did Diddy campaign for? Remember NXIVM? Balenciaga?
Which side downplayed Biden repeatedly groping, sniffing, and biting children? Which side ignored Bill Clinton going to Epstein island 26+ times? Which side claimed the Podesta emails were a conspiracy theory?
The body of evidence is incontrovertible. Not only are Democrat elites engaged in pedophilia, but pedophilia thrives under the policies and ideology of the Left.
Dear Dems,
When we beat you at the ballot box, you tried to frame Trump with treason and overturn the election.
When we beat you in debate, you assassinated Charlie.
When things don’t go your way, you riot and resort to violence.
YOU are the threat to democracy…
Not us.
Hey @JoeBiden and @TheDemocrats
Why did you pardon Fauci and Hunter for all crimes they may have committed, beginning January 1st 2014?
Coincidentally the same year Hunter got USAID contracts to begin gain-of-function research in Ukraine…
Asking for 8 billion friends.
My biggest takeaway from Trump’s address, is that that the Democrats are completely broken.
The optics could not have been worse.
The Dems have been relegated to holding signs in the corner and pouting, while Trump cleans up the mess THEY created.
They refused to clap even for the American citizens that Trump honored. They couldn’t stand and clap for steel workers, farmers, the mothers of children who had been murdered, or the young man with brain cancer, etc., but they were willing to clap for sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine…
They showed that they are willing to put politics before the American People. This is apparent with their policies, but tonight we saw it play out in real time.
It also didn’t help the Dems that Trump called them all human traffickers to their faces in front of the entire nation, which is WILD. I’m curious to see if the MSM address that or ignore it, we shall see.
Trump and the Republicans appear to be competent, sane, goal-oriented, professional, and pro-American, while the Dems are incompetent, irrational, directionless, petulant, and anti-American.
Tonight, the Dems proved to the entire world that they are an unserious group of people who are unfit to rule. We can never let them hold power ever again.