CPS officials have the option to not raise property taxes 5% on struggling Chicagoans, but they’re going to do it anyway. – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer

Ted joined Dan and Charles to talk about the silent exodus of Chicago residents as the city continues to worsen, why CPS enrollment has shrunk by 116K in the past two decades, why residents are livid about their increased property tax bills, and why Mayor Johnson will have to break his campaign promise to not raising property tax bills in order to meet his other spending promises.

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Giddyap
2 years ago

Chicago teachers are the most overpaid, most underperforming teachers in America

Poor Taxpayer
2 years ago

Tax increases are 100% for sure, always. If you do not like it leave is the response.

Da Judge
2 years ago
Reply to  Poor Taxpayer

Some of the reasons I left Taxistan;

  • Better job opportunity
  • Lower cost of living including da taxes
  • Better weather(winters suuuck in Sheeetcago)
  • Sick and tired of corrupt Dems and public sector unions total control of the state

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Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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