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
April 18, 2024
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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.
A set of state lawmakers want to extend CPS’ current school closing moratorium to February 1, 2027 – the same year CPS is set to transition to a fully-elected school board. That means schools like Manley High School, with capacity for more than 1,000 students but enrollment of just 78, can’t be closed for anther three years. The school spends $45,000 per student, but just 2.4% of students read at grade level.
Hopefully, all media will get the message, in Illinois, too.
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.
Let them strike. The kids unfortunate enough to go to the CPS schools won’t be getting any less of an education than they are now receiving by Zoom.
Do it. Do it. Do it. PLEASE STRIKE CTU!!! CTU’s anti-student and militant go-to-hell to the taxpayer behavior has finally been exposed and is on full view to everyone in Illinois ever since the Wuhan Virus sham started. Finally CTU is exposing themselves for the frauds that they are and for all of Chicago to see. CTU is showing that they dont give a fig about students and education and only care about theft, greed, sloth and their vermin membership. Chicago voters and taxpayers need to realize and fully understand the evil that this Union represents. Do it. Do it.… Read more »
The last strike had surprisingly little support other than CTU members themselves and the media. They had to parade through the streets, like freaks, to demand fealty from peasant taxpayers, shouting at them through megaphones and chanting loudly to disrupt their work day.
But now with coronavirus, and an empty downtown, I dare ask, if a union protests in the streets, but no one is around hear it, will anyone even care? I sure don’t.