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.
Remember how former Mayor Daley in desperation”sold” public parking to foreign investors for a $ billion to cover budget deficits ? That money was gone in two years leaving the city still in deficit, still bankrupt, with higher local real estate taxes, higher fees and charges for public services, and all the the growing parking revenue enriching only those foreign investors who had sold brain dead Chicago politicians a lemon of a deal. Where was Rahm when the monumental mistake immediately hit home? Nada. Now Mayor Rahm wants to play the same kind of game – and it will have… Read more »
The people of Chicago voted for Rahm and deserve what they get.
let’s break faster-the drain on us will eventually drain out. Do we want to wait til we are emptied or stop the drain while we still have something that is ours> My idea? just give them 1% like Indiana, with a note attached-“Use the Indiana Budget for everything, gub employees and pensions-and reduce them to the Indiana amount today-for everyone and cut gub staff by 80%.