Ted Dabrowski appeared on The Perri Small Show to discuss Wirepoints’ latest report: “Thirty years of pain: Illinoisans suffer as property tax bills grow far faster than household incomes, home values”. Ted pointed out that any way you cut them, the property taxes Illinoisans pay are punitive. As a share of household incomes, tax burdens are up more than 60 percent compared to three decades ago. And when measured as a percentage of home values, Illinois property taxes are now the highest in the country.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
The proliferation in Chicago’s garbage is encouraging to the rat population that’s reckoned to be the largest in the nation. Thank heavens Chicago is first in something. Put that Second City reputation in the shade.
For a stab at rodent control in Chicago, check out the Cats At Work program at Tree House Animal Foundation on N. Western Avenue. The program claims to have put 1,000 or so feral cats to work dispersing those pesky rodents.
Often, we flee if we can. (I have.) This has contributed to the failure of our major urban areas. I see it now in Seattle and Portland and Los Angeles. Detroit. Atlanta? Physical infrastructure fails then collapses. Same thing for civic infrastructure. Who wants to travel to Mexico as the cartels expand their geography. Paris (they say) has lost its charm. I was recently menaced by a Mid-Easterner in Amsterdam. Abandoning a city where your life and property are at risk is wholly understandable. You don’t have to live in Kiev to empathize. And life is too short to await… Read more »
I listened to the whole interview. The callers are so frustrated with their government. Ted talks about the problems and solutions. If Ted expresses hope for a better Illinois, it gives the less educated callers hope. Unfortunately, its false hope. The best advice Ted could have offered was to leave Illinois asap.
The difference in a gallon of gas between Central IL and St Charles, MO is 90 cents to a dollar. Where is ALL the $$$ going? Definitely not for roads and bridges.
And yet Illinoisans WILLINGLY choose to remain in Illinois and subject themselves to this abuse & declining quality of life.
There is no sympathy to offer from the rest of America.
“…the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?”
Here, I think, Hamlet was contemplating suicide but I’m not suggesting that emigration to Indiana is all THAT difficult (unless to Gary). However, many who stay and absorb the slings and arrows have weighty concerns or attachments (jobs, parents, tomato gardens or whatever). I can feel sympathy for the dilemmas they face and the difficulty for the decision they are forced to make.
The only reason I am still here is to care for my dad. When those duties sadly come to an end, I am out of this crooked, crap hole.
Indy, we reached our breaking point and left. Rest assured, things will get worse for Illinois. Some people have to learn the hard way.
Don’t be so harsh – many solid Americans still in IL who are stuck (they have farms, businesses, family to tend to, or are financially strapped). They just happen to be woefully outnumbered by incredibly corrupt Leftist Democrats. The moral is to escape IL at first chance. Papillon never stopped trying.
The leader of Pussy Riot fled Russia disguised as a delivery worker due to the Kremlin putting a politically motivated arrest warrant out.
She left the abusive state of Russia instead of sitting there whining.
You don’t have a hard border like a Berlin Wall forcing you to remain in Illinois. So you have the freedom to leave. Instead of staying and whining like someone in an abusive relationship without the courage to walk away.
The word “stuck” is used incorrectly. Almost anyone claiming to be stuck in Illinois is wrong.
Tell that to an active farmer and farmland owner in IL. They are as stuck as you can get with no realistic possiblity of literally starting over elsewhere in the same kind of operation particularly when it would require farming land nearby where years’ worth of trusting relationships will be missing. To some extent that same idea applies to other people or business owners whose personal and business reputation is well-estalished locally but carries no immeditate weight elsewhere.
They are not “stuck”.
The over 5 MILLION Ukrainians that have fled their war torn country beg to differ. These are people that moved with nothing but the clothes on their back & whatever they could pack in a suitcase.
If that’s how loosely you define “stuck,” then I’d agree. Most people who likely feel stuck in its more common usages would probably have a harsher description for the truly extreme situation you’ve mentioned. You’re not describing “stuck” so much as “life threatening,” one clear differentiator between the two situations. You are comparing vastly different disagreeable life sutuations while using the same term to describe the clearly different level of mental anguish each engenders. You can do that if you wish. I’d prefer to use terms that recognize that distinction.
Disagree. If you are tending to elderly family, you are not moving anytime soon. Same with a family business.