🚨 Japan left their dressing room spotless after their match against the Netherlands. 👏
A tradition built on respect, discipline, and responsibility. ❤️🇯🇵
If you haven’t figured it out by now, our entire government is a huge mafia who launders our tax payer money right back to themselves through foreign aid and endless wars.
They all hate you and could care less if you suffer and die horrible deaths, as long as they get dirty rich.
@jr_solito@ZenMasterMike Hold up. Did Brunson not play with/against Chicago players during his time at Lincolnshire & in AAU ball? I guarantee he played plenty of basketball with Chicago-born hoopers
Phrasing wasn’t “Chicago legend”. I think “Chicago HS hoops legend” is accurate, but that’s my opinion.
Weather modification and stratospheric aerosol injection is real, aka, "Chemtrails."
Our skies look like grid patterns and checker boards. Aluminum and other heavy metal content is being found in our soil at abnormally high levels.
This is not good, and we just let it keep on happening.
@00723maui@SingleBearel@ItsMeMikeyR09@DanteTheDon I actually think Bears *should* have to pay a ton of Property Taxes for Arlington H
Bears just shouldn’t pay more than 2-3x what the LA Rams pay 4 Property Taxes to CA (#1 in NFL property taxes at $13-$14M per year)
Nor should the Bears give up ownership of the stadium to IL
@00723maui@SingleBearel@ItsMeMikeyR09@DanteTheDon 😂 Ok guy. If Pritzker and the Reps actually think that, they are just DUMB
1) Sales Tax Profit: This will be a stadium w/ almost 2x capacity of Soldier Field + entertainment district + year-round use
2) Property Taxes. Bears pay $0 PT for Soldier
3) Development & Jobs= Taxes
@00723maui@SingleBearel@ItsMeMikeyR09@DanteTheDon Ask yourself this: “Why do Tax Payers have to cover the infrastructure costs?”
IL Government needs to cut its budget in other areas — and will “profit” in form of net new annual taxes from an Arlington Heights development. That would pay 4 the infra costs. But IL is greedy
@toddfather76@ItsMeMikeyR09@DanteTheDon Thank you, Toddfather. It’s really that simple.
Does IL want minimum $50M PER YEAR in more property + sales + hotel taxes?
Or do they want $0? (Indiana)
The Chicago Bears are not the villain in this story. You should be upset about the ever-growing tax burden in Illinois and the lack of long-term tax certainty that makes it difficult for businesses to invest and grow.
Sometimes the choice isn’t between $50 million and $30 million. It’s between $30 million and zero. If excessive or unpredictable property taxes drive investment away, Illinois doesn’t collect the extra $20 million—it loses the entire project, the jobs, the tourism, and the economic activity that comes with it.
Without a long-term cap or tax certainty, a property tax bill that starts at $50 million a year could eventually grow to $100 million, $150 million, or even $200 million annually, making the project economically unfeasible.
The Bears didn’t create Illinois’ property tax system. The people who make those decisions are elected by us. If you’re frustrated by rising taxes, direct that frustration where it belongs: at the policies and elected officials responsible for creating them.
That’s the definition of being penny-wise and dollar-foolish. Losing billions in investment, jobs, and economic growth over an unpredictable tax structure helps no one.
Illinois is not open for business. The leaders of this state truly believe it's a privilege for you to do business in Illinois. They make it as hard as possible for you to succeed, then attack you when you have no choice but to look for greener pastures elsewhere.
...and, there you go. JB Pritzker, Brandon Johnson, and Springfield politicians are chasing yet another business out of Illinois. This one will hurt for a long time.
This is why Illinois is among the worst in the country for GDP, job, and income growth since Pritzker took office.