Chicago Intercepts Tax Refunds To Collect Unpaid Debt, Hitting Poor Black Areas The Hardest – Block Club Chicago

In Chicago, fines and fees — and how they are collected — have become a key issue of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s young administration. She has vowed to break the city’s “addiction” to raising revenue “on the backs of low-income people."
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nixit
3 years ago

If Chicago penalizes residents for overpaying their state income taxes, then those residents should claim more personal allowances on their IL-W-4’s.

Fed up neighbor
3 years ago

You low life bastards

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