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.
The new tax would be to generate revenue “to meet the city’s burgeoning public pension liabilities.” What business in Chicago would be in favor of that tax?
Once again, Chicago and IL pols are naïve to think they can continue the onslaught of new and higher taxes on businesses and residents without these entities relocating out of Chicago or IL.
“Chicago and IL pols are naïve ”
They’re not naive – they just don’t care. They don’t count on white mobile telecommuters for their votes. They count on poor and middle class minorities who refuse to leave the city for the suburbs for their votes. And laws like this don’t affect their constituency because they don’t work downtown.