- Streamline Bureaucracy: Reduce administrative overhead by consolidating agencies, eliminating redundant programs, and simplifying regulations to lower operational costs.
- Privatization and Outsourcing: Contract out certain services (e.g., transportation maintenance, IT services) to private companies if they can deliver them more cost-effectively, while ensuring quality isn’t compromised.
- Workforce Efficiency: Implement hiring freezes, reduce overtime, offer early retirement incentives, or transition to part-time or contract workers where feasible. Reviewing employee benefits and pension plans for sustainability can also help.
- Technology and Automation: Invest in technology to automate routine tasks (e.g., tax processing, licensing), reducing the need for manual labor and long-term expenses.
- Cut Non-Essential Spending: Review and eliminate or scale back low-priority programs, subsidies, or grants that don’t deliver significant public benefit.
- Energy and Resource Efficiency: Retrofit state buildings for energy efficiency, reduce vehicle fleet sizes, or shift to renewable energy sources to lower utility and operational costs.
- Revenue Optimization: Improve tax collection efficiency, close loopholes, or sell unused state assets (e.g., land, buildings) rather than raising taxes.
- Shared Services: Encourage collaboration between state and local governments to share resources like equipment, facilities, or personnel, reducing duplication.
- Program Evaluation: Regularly assess the effectiveness of state programs using data-driven metrics, cutting or reforming those with poor outcomes.
- Reduce Debt Service Costs: Refinance high-interest state debt, avoid unnecessary borrowing, and prioritize paying down existing obligations.
Government
IL is in first place as a state with the most government units, 6930 in all, or 7.6% of the total in the USA. If we had proportional representation, the share should be 1%.
Can we set a goal of reducing this number with consolidation of units, reduction of services, or other means?
IL Taxes
By any measure, IL taxes are higher than almost every other state. In studies conducted by reputable sources, IL ranks from the most taxed state to the seventh in tax burden.
Can we set a goal of reducing the costs of government to more affordable levels, moving our tax burden to perhaps tenth or fifteenth in the next few years?
Election Integrity
IL elections are known for vote fraud. The past few cycles have included voting by non-citizens, by non-residents and more.
Can we set a goal to clean up our voting rolls and confidently assure IL voters that we can trust the results of elections?
IL Debt
The state of IL has the highest levels of debt in the US. At both local and state wide levels, the financial future of the state is endless debt. The biggest driver of the debt burden is IL Pension plans, the most generous plans in the country.
Can we set a goal of modifying and reducing terms of IL pensions to cut the debt burden?
The Constitution Rules
Under our system of government, the role of Federal authority is limited and defined. Under the Supremacy clause, the Federal government prevails over state government when their is a direct issue. The tenth Amendment assigns all other government authority to the states and to the people.
Can we set a goal of complying with federal law regarding citizens and voting, illegals and womens sports?
Rights of Parents
Just a few years ago, the rights of parents were superior to the interests of the government. Home schooling was a choice freely entered into by parents and beyond the reach of the state.
Can we go back to that era, when the state respected the rights of parents to raise their children without government supervision?
The MAGA Agenda and IL GOP Commitments
All politics is local, per Tip O’Neill, former Speaker of the House, D-MA. On a national level, per recent survey, 71% of Republicans embrace the MAGA agenda as the best path forward for our nation. The party base supports the MAGA mandates for policies that advance our economy, our society and foreign relations.
We citizens of Kane County need a political party that reflects the national interest noted. The ILGOP website does not report any commitment to the MAGA agenda.
In coming months, it will be critical to the 2026 and 2028 election cycles that the ILGOP is aligned with the party base and fully supports the MAGA agenda. Let’s make Illinois Great Again!