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.
Hasn’t this fat POS heard of yellow vests?
I suspect it would be unconstitutional as well as states can’t really get involved with foriegn treaties, only the Feds can do that.
The environmentalists usually vote Democratic, do they not? Will they vote for higher gasoline taxes to curb greenhouse gas emissions? Will Fred Klonsky stop flying to Brooklyn and Italy? Will Al Gore take the train to his next lecture, or fly commercial?
I doubt that democracies can solve or even ameliorate the climate problem (or the gun problem, for that matter OR the pension problem). Data shows that Generation Z leans left and one has to wonder how far ahead they are looking. The oft-kicked can is likely to show up before too many more years go by.
JB might be the last governor of Illinois before it goes into federal receivership.
Mark, they’ll never care for your “extreme right-wing views.” Pritzker is unleashing the gates of nonexistent money even earlier than everyone thought. But we all knew that he would give AFSCME everything that Rauner held out on for four years–all for naught. Now, he’s giving money away to every left-wing, socialist and progressive cause out there. I firmly believe that Pritzker is a coward, and that he is afraid of being called any type of deplorable name for not kowtowing to any particular progressive effort. He’s already rich, and what he wants is LEGACY. He wants to be known as… Read more »
JB is trying to be the second billionaire president. Illinois can crash and burn but he could very well make it to the Oval Office based on the voters in the “Taker Nation” we now live in.
Another firm of lining their pocket, THEY ARE ALL CROOKS!! OMG IL IS THE NEXT DETROIT, WAKE UP PEOPLE