‘I was disgusted’: Pilsen property owners brace for tax rate increased by 46% – CBS2 (Chicago)

The average Chicago bill went up 8% but in Pilsen bills went up an average of 46%. After rallying and even holding two forums with the Cook County Tax Assessor, Fritz Kaegi not much has changed. And those appeals, the assessor urged everyone to file, have been submitted and in some cases denied.
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Aaron
3 years ago

That means it’s working. You will own nothing and you will like it.

Riverbender
3 years ago

I have to laugh at this. Those tax issues might have been different had these upset property owners voted for a change. LOL pay your taxes people and don’t forget it could be worse as next years taxes are going to be higher.
LOL!

vb
3 years ago

Welcome to the party. Northsider here, Increases of 50-100% were not unusual in my neighborhood. Protests went nowhere.

Divide and conquer. The city only craps on one third of the population at a time.

Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

Here is what PPF and the likes of him have created for the honest working family’s.
Yikes, Illinois Is The Worst State For Middle Class Families – Q98.5 (Rockford)
No one can afford to pay the overly generous Ponzi scheme pension payments.

Frank Miller
3 years ago

How to remove your property from the tax roll. – Steve Emerson

Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

This is what is and will be destroying Illinois for many years to come.
Pension time bomb (Ponzi Scheme) is exploding now and for many more years to come.
This will be the largest generation theft in History. Stealing unborn babies’ future income for the overly generous pensions of lazy government Lackies.

JackBolly
3 years ago
Reply to  Poor Taxpayer

No, this is what they voted for in Pilsen. Now the bill is due.

Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  JackBolly

There is not a single voter in Pilsen who can list all the legislative pension benefit hikes passed by State Representatives and State Senators, and signed by Governors, over the decades.

Those state pension laws, in the Illinois Pension Code, contain the pension rules used by the four City of Chicago local pension funds (Laborers, Municipal, Fire, Police).

Just one aspect of The Illinois Pension Scam, aka The Illinois Pension Racket.

There was no way to knowledgeably vote.

Dark legislation.

Da Judge
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Mike, Agree 1000%!!

Da Judge

JackBolly
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

You should tell that to Fatty Arbuckle, the new Marxist Mayor, and the public employee union bosses they answer to – I’m sure they will listen.

Meanwhile, pay up or leave – those are your choices.

Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago
Reply to  JackBolly

Tens of thousands are voting with their feet.

JackBolly
3 years ago

‘”If there is $1 million house across the street, my taxes should not be based on that house across the street. My tenants haven’t changed. My building is the same,” Bader said.’

Comical. Everyone needs to put their ‘fair share’ into the kitty.

If you don’t like it, leave.

Last edited 3 years ago by JackBolly
debtsor
3 years ago

From what I’ve seen, everyone has appealed throughout the county and there’s been lots of denials. That’s equity!

mmack
3 years ago

As a former Ill-annoy resident who lived in Will and DuPage County and paid property tax rates that were higher than those in Cook County for years, I have zero sympathy. Pay up suckas, I had to. Make sure Pensions Paid First gets his fair share. It’s in the Constitution you know.

Poor Taxpayer
3 years ago

Shut up and pay your taxes. If you do not like it move.
About 80% of property-tax dollars in Chicago go to pensions. Yet Chicago’s four pension systems have only enough assets to cover about 25% of what they owe workers and retirees.
Expect many more increases in the future.

Last edited 3 years ago by Poor Taxpayer
Pensions Paid First
3 years ago

This just means taxes have been too low for too long. It’s about time that Pilsen residents start paying their fair share.

willowglen
3 years ago
Reply to  Poor Taxpayer

PPF – you should reconcile your statement with Illinois having one of the highest tax burdens in the country with paying a fair share. You mean to suggest that taxpayers must pay even more? It is folly to think that this won’t impact the economics of state.

debtsor
3 years ago
Reply to  willowglen

He admits it will have an economic impact, but that’s too bad. That pothole on your street is there because someone’s pension must be paid. The neighborhood playground is closed because a pension must be paid. The police have slow response times because a pension must be paid. There’s 70 kids to a classroom because pensions must be paid. And so on…

Riverbender
3 years ago

Absolutely! The answer to some of their problems might have been found at the ballot box but Illinois voters are much too busy to vote.
Raise those assessments higher next year…you know they will

Mike
3 years ago

This just means salaries and pension benefit laws (legislative benefit hikes passed by the state legislators and signed into law by Governors) were increased even though pensions were already underfunded. With few exceptions. Massive damage was inflicted after the so called pension protection clause (protection for the pension racket) was added to the State of Illinois constitution on December 15, 1970 as one small part of the re-written state constitution, passed in a voter referendum at a statewide special election. That was 53 years ago. An overly simplistic analogy is charging the credit card for 53 years, carrying a credit… Read more »

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