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.
Just ask the blacks to compassionately return everything they looted, and fairly repair everything they destroyed or damaged.
And the same with all the other races, but it seems the blacks did most of the looting.
How about rewards for tips that lead to prosecutions?
…lead to convictions.
Not one penny should be given. The Model Cities, Urban Renewal and Empowerment Zones have mostly failed. Let the Blacks pour their own monies into and patrol their own Black businesses. ?
No. Government protects what private parties build, that was the bargain, we do our part in paying the taxes to support it. The bargain was not honored by government. Therefore government should have no part of any rebuilding discussion, and deciding on the winners and the losers. Government had it’s turn here, and it came up extremely short. Why would anyone believe any future such responsibility would be anymore successful.
So….where is this money coming from? Illinois is on the edge of default and then bankruptcy. Oh, I forgot. These are Illinois politicians and mostly Democrats and they all failed Math in school. This money comes from the magic tree next to the unicorn corral.
The reality of bankruptcy will be especially harsh for these buffoons.
I was driving up Tower Road heading west from Sheridan Rd the other day and noticed more for sale signs on one strip of road than I ever recall seeing before. Now why would all the good citizens of Winnetka suddenly want to move?
Could they possibly be planning to join Mrs. Pritzker in Florida?
With all these high end taxpayers getting out while the getting is good, who will J. Beluga have left to use his newly minted graduated income tax on?
Has anybody here ever heard of something called the “middle class”?
It’s been difficult to sell property on the north shore for a while. Taxes, location and older properties are a tough sell when there are gentrified areas of Chicago area available; and combined with IL’s slow drip of a population decline, there are just too many luxury neighborhoods for too few luxury buyers. You see, the gentrification of Chicago broke the cycle of the north shore. 30 years ago, the DINKS would have moved from Chicago or their college town back home to the north shore to start a family. The would use family money to snap up high… Read more »
White CPS’ student population has been decreasing for years since the 1960s, for many reasons, including decreasing standards, lesser punishments, no Bibles, no prayers, busing (September 1977-June 2009) and more. ?
The 9%ers also include Whites choosing their local schools, while some opt for deluxe schools. This is true on Chicago’s Northwest Side, which has experienced private school closures too. ?
Not all of the White 9%ers are from gentrifying areas. ?
Of course not all, but many, especially the elementary schools all along the lakeshore neighborhoods.
Yes, this is true. As you said earlier, those Whites will soon move away to the North Shore. ?
I would also recommend a nice little cruise northward along Sheridan Rd, say from about Kenilworth to Tower Rd. There is more “lakefront mansion” building going on along that strip than I have ever seen before and I have been cruising that area, whether it be by bicycle, topless Jeep, motorcycle or just plain car since the early 60’s.
Something very fundamental is occurring on Chicago’s Northshore and I can’t figure out why no one in the media is writing about it.
I love going topless!
It’s been a while since I’ve driven on Sheridan road, for sure. No one is writing about it because they don’t want to attract attention. As many people are saying, this George Floyd thing isn’t a race conflict, it’s a class conflict, and the wealthy woke liberals would have their new mansions looted and burned if the protestors directed their anger at the real enemy – the 1% woke progresssives who control all the money – instead of the local cop just trying to finish his 12 hour shift.
Send the bill to lightfoot and pritzger.
If you want to take 80% stress out of your life,MOVE your whole nervous system calms down.You will feel a live again when you remove your self from the burning dumpster fire of Illinois.You don’t feel ripped off by chicago criminals as the illinois public will vote all dem again after this.THEY WILL !!!
So true. I experienced it. Red states thriving