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.
Again, I can only chuckle. I mentioned in a prior comment my “dim” view of the Illinois legislature. One person was offended that I could possibly come to this conclusion about all of them in one broad stroke. The truth is that I don’t have to wait long or work hard to prove my point. I can just wait for the latest Wirepoints article! I don’t know if the people in our legislature are just woefully incognizant of general civics, or if they are just such partisan hacks that they couldn’t care less. I imagine it’s the former for many… Read more »
Newspapers endorse candidates all the time, this law can’t end that.
Maybe they ought to vote out the Republican with a true Republican in Geneva
Ironic, considering so many newspapers of the late 19th and 20th Centuries grew out of house publications of the various political parties. Good thing Martwick and Andersson weren’t around then.