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 MyStateline (WTVO-TV ABC 17 & WQRF-TV FOX 39) article omitted that Madison County was included in the previous (June 1, 2020) Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation.
Thus the Governor has declared a Disaster in 14 of the 102 Illinois counties.
The June 1st, 2020 Proclamation declared that rioting occurred in 9 counties.
The June 3rd, 2020 Proclamation declared that “rioting or the threat of rioting” occurred in 5 counties.
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/Documents/DisasterProc-6-1-2020.pdf
https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/gov/Documents/DisasterProc-6-3-2020.pdf
Why is this governor doing this I must have missed something. Power grab by chuckles the clown???
What about J Beluga County? How could he possibly have ignored that one, If that isn’t a big fat disaster nothing is…