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.
Yet no one calls out all that took place this summer.!!
Reason because it wasn’t them, now it is them directly affecting them.
93% of those protesters were peaceful. Don’t let the actions of the 7% define the overall peaceful protest.
The 7% was peaceful too. Property damage is not violence. That was the argument over the summer. Because they have insurance. There was no looting, no burning, no destruction. Just a bunch of Peacefully Protesting Patriots.
Lawmakers say we need serious conversations. Yes, but we will get progressive lectures that anyone who doesn’t agree with their program is a threat to America. Followed up with large doses of cancel culture or worse. There are no longer political conversations in this country. The left has decided that the truth of an idea is determined by the number of people who will vote for it. Alarmingly close to “might makes right”.
Yes, ignore the concerns about the election and just ram through the certification of the dementia patient. That won’t anger the restless population…This is Marie Antoinette type stuff here.
Libertatem Defendimus