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.
She owes $6,000 because the fines start to rack up pretty fast, had she paid the fine at the time, it would have been a 1/3rd of that. I’ve seen this a lot, and quite frankly, its irresponsible. Residents of those poor zip codes (of all races), as the as the victim describes herself, live in a kind of a different world – an old colleague described it as socialism but that’s not the right definition. This grandmother was out of town and let her granddaughter use the car “to get to school” and suddenly the granddaughter’s boyfriend is driving… Read more »