Your property taxes pay for government workers’ guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions while you get no such guarantees – Wirepoints on with Jeff Daly of WZUS Decatur Radio
Ted joined Jeff Daly to discuss why Illinois’ property taxes are such a national outlier, why Illinoisans are forced to pay the high, guaranteed salaries, benefits and pensions of the government class, why Illinoisans aren’t getting their money’s worth for what they pay, the teachers unions’ influence over elections, and more.
““This community has been drained of resources for almost 50 years now,” The problem with this concept is ‘the community’. Chicago and the suburbs are filled with communities. The communities themselves are transient with people coming and going, buying and selling, renting and moving. The idea that the ‘community’ has been drained of resources is just plain wrong because it’s lacked resources for 50 years, there’s been nothing to drain. If you live in a place that sucks, has nothing but drugs, booze and payday loans stores, maybe its time to move. To somewhere else. You know, anywhere else. Anywhere… Read more »