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.
People can’t figure him out now because he’s no longer standing for anything at all. He’s been reduced to a pile of feathers, comfortable, don’t rock the boat, I didn’t win a single battle, they wore me out, I don’t give a damn, I give up, I didn’t know what I really stood for, I don’t care anymore, etc. Any one of these phrases is now as good as the next. Yes a rudderless boat.
Spot on. He has deferred to the mrs because “She’s a great gal and I love her and my head is spinning snyway.” That’s what it seems like! The problem with rich people (haha, God love ‘em, tho!) is that they need a cause to feel fulfilled, busywork to “pay” for their blessings / good fortune. But they are insulated and many have a rather lazy, narrow, unchanging vision of their “lessers.” This is not 1900s Hull House. Mrs R is not Jane Addams. Things are different, made much worse by government do-gooder interference. Mrs R seems to feel that… Read more »
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Great comment Kathy. It’s beyond me why folks like Mrs. R can’t or won’t recognize the ruinous trajectory we are on. She’s smart, as are most of my liberal friends, but their inability to see the obvious is a mystery to me. The only “argument” they offer when confronted with facts is “shut up.” That’s why I’m convinced that nothing will change in this state until we experience complete economic collapse.