One million page views: Why such fuss about that foolish statewide property tax proposal? – Quicktake

Thank the authors of the study. They helped prove the case that the establishment that wrecked us can't fix us and that our problems are colossal.
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Bob Sanders
5 years ago

If arrow smith can spend 2 million on drugs why can’t who people come up with money for your property tax bill….

Connie Cain
5 years ago

Let’s not forget the impact of numerous tax increment financing districts (TIF) districts and the forgone tax revenues.

5 years ago

the establishment is why you get people like Trump elected. They cannot see the forest because of the trees, or in less polite vernacular cannot get their heads out of their asses

Smelly jelly
5 years ago
Reply to  Jeff Carter

The establishment is the Illuminati!!

You can’t you see this !!

Mike xyz
5 years ago

The 3 Chicago Fed economists project the 1% statewide residential property tax would reduce Illinois residential property value by $165 billion dollars ($828B x.2), which the economists claim would eventually be recovered.

The 20 percent reduction was picked up by Cole Lauterbach of Illinois News Network in his May 16th article.

https://www.ilnews.org/news/economy/illinois-realtors-proposed-statewide-property-tax-untenable/article_ac594e68-5883-11e8-a35e-6fc31fc0a68a.html

He obtained the 20% from the May 7th Chicago Fed blog post by the three economists.

That same blog post contains the $828B figure.

http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=3096

Bob
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike xyz

The 1% has of course no chance of passing. The FEDERAL Reserve bank proposing Illinois law? Don’t the have anything FEDERAL to do? That begs the question why would you propose something that has NO chance of passing? Answer – scare em some more. People are already sacred. The General Assembly has already stiffed local governments and schools leaving them to raise the only reliable source of $ they have, the property tax.Public opinion continues to support the idea that the General Assembly mad this mess, they need to clean it up. But, get em scared enough and they may… Read more »

Jake
5 years ago

I think our central bankers DO understand what they are proposing; that is, all wealth reverts to the state. What care they? They are there to help their political friends, not the citizen. It’s been that way since the beast crawled off of Jekyll Island to take over the world.

Paul
5 years ago
Reply to  Jake

With the already contracted debt and need for future debt of course the bankers are in support of this.

Bob Sanders
5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Bankers are the Illuminati!!

Bob Sanders
5 years ago
Reply to  Jake

Jake man that stuff about jeckel island is true.

It’s all the Illuminati man

Freddy
5 years ago

Mark- When you state that taxes are 2.67% does that include farmland. New Jersey is always number 1 or 2 in property taxes % wise but they have much less farmland that Illinois. What would the % be excluding farmland. Illinois has 27 Million acres farmland vs 733,000 in NJ. Thanks!

Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  Freddy

Freddy – Illinois farmland owners enjoy much lower property taxes than similar land owners in surrounding states. Illinois agricultural land is not taxed based solely on its value, but rather, by a formula based on value and, mostly, productivity. Illinois farmers enjoy the protection of an incredibly powerful lobby that has kept their operating costs quite low.

Mike xyz
5 years ago
Reply to  Erik

It’s not only the farmers lobby.

Developers and politicians own farmland too.

Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike xyz

It was the Illinois Farm Bureau that lobbied for, and drove through, the current farmland property tax assessment system.

Freddy
5 years ago
Reply to  Mark Glennon

Thanks everyone!

Bob Sanders
5 years ago
Reply to  Freddy

Freddy I don’t mean to burst your bubble…..but how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could cuk woodies ??

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