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.
I’ve been against this all along. But recently realizing that the only industry Illinois has been able to attract is warehousing, shipping and logistics. The warehouses down southe here are appearing every week, Amazon is opening another. Killing the illiana tollway was the huge mistake. If this road eventually leads to getting the illiana I’m all for it. But pritzker if he was smart should be partnering with Amazon on the airport, he should sell it totally as an air freight terminal, not a passenger airport. I could easily see it getting used a lot for that seeing all the… Read more »
Yes with assorted tax credits and gimmicks so no actual positive revenue is brought into the State. By the way Amazon is automating their warehouses and experimenting with deliveries by drone and with the advent of self driving vehicles on the horizon the only partnership in Illinois will be just more corporate welfare with I would assume with naturally more campaign contributions.
So the rest of us in the state get to pay more at the pump for a road to nowhere in Chicago that not even Chicagoans will use. This is why people are fleeing this dumpster fire.