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.
WHAT????????????: “With a two-teacher household and both of us off for a week, that’s a big hit,” Person said. “But I’m going to start to get worried about money at the end of this week.” ” SO YOUR HOUSEHOLD INCOME is well above the city average, likely close to $150,000 a year – you don’t even have to save for retirement because of your promised pension…but you get worried about money after a week or two of no pay? YOU ARE AN ECONOMICS TEACHER (according to the article!) THIS IS INSANE – THESE PROFLIGATE DEGENERATE teachers who can’t even manage… Read more »
Silly debtstor, math is for Republicans. Seriously, though, progressives truly are terrible with finances. But then again, so was their hero Marx.
Probably a home economics class with no emphasis on finance, but rather on health and community awareness
That inconvenient moment when idealism hits the brick wall of reality.
The brick wall of reality is that despite earning, by all standards, an amazing above average income, they spend every penny of it, and more, have zero savings, and can’t go a week without pay check.
I truly hope that the collateral damage from all of this is foreclosure, repossession and evictions. The CTU members did it to themselves.
On a related note, I have to buy a new car this year ,and I was going to buy another Chevy, but with their strike, they’re out of luck. Greedy employees. I’m buying a Jeep instead.