Don’t fall for the “progressive-income-tax-for-property-tax-relief” tax swap referendum – Wirepoints
While this new advisory referendum could be nothing more than a political distraction, it could also be that lawmakers are gauging Illinoisans’ appetite for another bite at a progressive income tax hike – this time with lower property taxes as a sweetener.
Beale’s the only alderman with the balls to tell it like it is—–“Beale cited the “scam of scoop and toss — in which the Mayor is putting off truly balancing the budget — allowing her to announce small tax increase but with a likely big one in the next two years and which we and our children will pay for decades.”