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.
How about parents, instead of the police, keeping children out of the criminal justice system?
Oh no, the blame must fall on everyone else for there lack of effort in raising a child, children. It has to be everybody else’s problem. Back in the day we were raised by are parents and taught respect, I knew damn well not to get out of line or else, today sue,sue,sue even your own parents.
Years ago I joked with my spouse that it was racist to enforce child support obligations. Because some, but not all, people who have multiple children with multiple women, shouldn’t be forced to pay for their children in a modern society. Back in the days when we were all cavemen, everyone in the tribe slept with everyone else, and no one know who the father of anyone’s children were. All the men would go out hunting/gathering to provide collectively for the women who stayed back and reared all of the children collectively. Hence, it takes a community to raise a… Read more »
A few years back there were 2 Illinois politicians presented a bill that would require the fathers name on the birth certificate. It was almost immediately deemed rasist and they withdrew the bill within 48 yours or so. Their mistake was in my opinion that it was not introduced as a medical reason like the fathers family history of diabetes or cancer. It was introduced to have a father be responsible for his kids and thus reducing state aid for the mother.