Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
So, if I read this all correctly, the Cook County Assessor, Kaegi, says that it’s not his fault that the Cook County Board of Review didn’t over-rule enough of his unpopular property tax assessments. OK….. 40% of which go to some alderman’s and/or mayor’s progressive special-project-of-the-moment TIF fund, that should have already solved/fixed one of the woke/equity/diversity/underinvested/broke problems with which Chicago remains hopelessly plagued. And that of this $3 billion dollars in annual property taxes, homeowner’s property taxes increased at a far higher rate than commercial property’s taxes because the County Board of Review over-ruled Kaegi’s assessments, and reduced the… Read more »