Growing property tax burdens make this state unlivable for too many Illinoisans – Wirepoints joins Tom Miller of WJPF Carbondale
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about Illinois’ highest-in-the-nation property taxes, why lawmakers don’t want to touch the tax’s cost drivers, just how much Illinoisans’ tax burden has grown over the decades, why Gov. Pritzker failed to meet his promise to reform property taxes, and more.
I’d like to kindly remind folks that Illinois was a free state. A Republican president from Illinois (who like DJT did not win with a plurality) issued a proclamation freeing all slaves, none of whom lived in Illinois. Illinois sent many union men to their death to free the slaves. Illinois did not have Jim Crow, nor did it have the KKK, or lynchings, or systemic racism separating the races. It really makes zero, yes zero, sense for a city like Evanston to talk about reparations.
The party of the same KKK, Jim Crow laws, Woodrow Wilson, and LBJ (vile racists both) seems far more obsessed with race than their opponents, whom they constantly accuse of racism. And people fall for it. Every…single…time.