Ted was on Chicago’s Morning Answer with Dan and Amy to talk about the absurdity of Mayor Lightfoot selling city “social bonds” to Chicagoans, why its akin to the city selling its own body parts off piece by piece, the injustice of governments taking and selling people’s homes to recoup unpaid property taxes, why poor residents in South Cook are suffering the most from Illinois’ property tax regime, and more.
Read more from Wirepoints:
- Chicago’s south suburbs struggle under Springfield’s continuing neglect
- Illinois’ newest suicide attempt: Legislation for an Illinois wealth tax will be introduced on Thursday
- Thirty years of pain: Illinoisans suffer as property tax bills grow far faster than household incomes, home values
- It’s back…Illinois’ Sen. Martwick to again push for a progressive tax, even as U.S. states overwhelmingly move toward flat or zero income taxes.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
Hmmm…. That’s what the government does; they take. If you resist they frame you and throw you in jail.
All you who voted for The Communist Democrats enjoy your tax increases, crimes, inflation, and the mess we are in this state and the country.