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.
Since the Supreme Court has decided to jump into the thicket of local politics to solve the challenge of gerrymandering, it should also be time to get involved in the consequences of discriminatory use of the powers of political control of a public office. The U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4, provides : The United states shall guarantee every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” and the XIV Amendment provides: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities… nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protect of… Read more »
the few advantage themselves by corrupt vote taking and the many are disadvantaged and frankly, robbed. Just not paying those insane RE taxes, some amount maybe the 1980 sum is the ONLY way to bring them to their knees. I’ve been on mine to them for far too long. Strength in numbers. Grassroots needs to form and organize this tax protest. Does crying, pleading, even leaving Illinois work? Not yet.
growing up in Chicago in the 60’s, way back then the culture of “ubi est mea” was about bozo hacks who couldn’t cut it in the private sector and went to there local feudal lord alderman and got a not so great gig & pension as streets and san truck driver or something. that all changed w 70s w “not to be diminished” state const amend, decades of added goodies and especially all the deals handed out under daley II. Now, if you live 20 years past 55 your retiring w gaurenteed multi million $ gig!!. but most importantly, today… Read more »
Burke is right. That’s why Illinois is a Zombie State.