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 services have been dwindling for 10 years now, the money you shell out in taxes has not been worth it for a long time now and will only continue to get much much worse. The only solution is fleeing and living elsewhere.
Lightfoot has a plan to increase sales? Is it product enhancements? Improved customer service? Lower prices? I can’t wait to find out.
“This is not simple math”… For the last 20 years the union types and their lawmaker puppets treated it like it was simple kick-the-can accounting–when did it become so complicated all of a sudden?
Massive tax increases. Who are the unions going to vote for, a Republican? Of course not.
Welcome to the next Detroit ladies and gentlemen
She really thinks we are all stupid.
But her hair still looks good 🙂