The massive roughly $8 billion spending plan for 2022 focuses on making the county a more equitable place to live and work. “No new taxes, no new fees. No program cutbacks or personnel cutbacks. How could you vote against it?” said Commissioner Peter Silvestri. “Any budget that is approved when the day light is still on is a good thing.”
Why is it that the more equitable our leaders make the county, the less desirable a place it becomes to live?
And yet Cook County is pushing a Property Tax Referendum for the forest preserves?
So we will see our property taxes go down because we are sharing in this “new found” wealth, right? Wasn’t it taxpayers money in the first place??
Fund the damned pensions and quit celebratiing with other people’s money.
Flush with OPM!
Flush with “my money” please, the taxpayer. It is not federal money.
The joke is on us. Crooks all of them, corrupt to the core.
Commissioner Peter Silvestri and he calls himself a Republican.