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
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.
I’ll answer that question…. They focus on social welfare because that subject is a good political diversion and a device to divide voters and provide that “old reliable” in all their arguments and that is the necessity to create a victim and a villain. Illinois politicians are not about running a state, they are about carving out constituencies the biggest being the govt Union sector, behind that vendors that can easily be made into victims of the budget, like contracted social workers, those are useful tools. Is commonwealth Edison a “victim” because they have not been paid either? No, they… Read more »