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.
A lot of those preserves are in white neighborhoods where people actually pay real estate taxes. Gotta show whitey who’s boss
Near Busse woods in local communities such as Rolling Meadows, Palatine, Elk Grove, are large apartment buildings filled with hispanic day laborers and low wage workers. Multiple families often share tiny, cramped apartments, and the workers often live there in shifts, as in day shift, evening shift, and so on. Two 30 hour a week jobs = 60 hours a week and a decent living at a low wage with limited expenses. But with everything being closed and social distancing being strictly enforced, I couldn’t imagine being cramped into a two bedroom roach filled apartment with seven to nine other… Read more »
Groot’s idea of exercising is writing checks to her re-election fund then goose-stepping to the post office to mail it. That’s a good upper and lower body workout!