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.
I have a bone to pick on this issue. It seems that many are screaming, “but…free market!” The problem with this logic is that it fails to acknowledge that food trucks use the public way, exclusively. They do not pay property taxes. To be able to just plop a truck in the middle of the street in front of any restaurant that pays the bills causes a pragmatic problem of harm to the city, in that it undermines the ecosystem of taxation as it is currently structured. There is nothing barring a food truck from renting a private plot of… Read more »