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.
Good: Even WBEZ recognizes the inherent problem created in government by reflexively electing the same Democrats to office year after year.
Bad: WBEZ’s solution (not in this article, but overall) is to elect *different*, more progressive Democrats, year after year, to fix the very problems the very same Democrat voters created by reflexively electing the same Democrats to office year after year.