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COOK COUNTY PROPERTY TAX BILLS CAUSE OUTRAGE [Pensions]
ABC 7 News Chicago ^ | July 5, 2016 | Charles Thomas

Posted on 07/27/2016 6:41:35 AM PDT by C19fan

Cook County taxpayers are outraged after property tax bills showed up in the mail. The bills are skyrocketing this year.

The city of Chicago and its public school district's fiscal problems literally hit home over the weekend, when property owners saw their second installment tax bills.

Outside the assessor's office, city homeowners told one property tax horror story after another.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: pensions; propertytax; taxes
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You voted for the corrupt clowns who run Chicago/Cook County. Now time to pay the piper.
1 posted on 07/27/2016 6:41:35 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

They’re gonna for Hillary in November.

Shaddup, quit whining and pay your bill.

You get what you deserve.


2 posted on 07/27/2016 6:43:37 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: C19fan

The property tax bills are already outrageous. That’s why I moved out of state, seven years ago.

How much worse can it get?

-ex Chicagoan


3 posted on 07/27/2016 6:43:55 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: C19fan

Welcome to democratic reality.

Just where do these morons think the government gets its money from.

They laud Canada for it’s free everything and forget the VAT they have to pay.

Whenever I go to Canada, I ALWAYS go with a full tank of gas and any spare Canadian change I happen to have picked up along the way.


4 posted on 07/27/2016 6:44:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: C19fan

Serves them right for electing corrupt democrats for the past 40 years.


5 posted on 07/27/2016 6:44:49 AM PDT by pb929
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To: C19fan

Just a little wealth redistribution.


6 posted on 07/27/2016 6:44:57 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: C19fan

Chicago will wind up like Detroit where Chicago will have a lot of empty houses on its hand and still be in the hole pension wise.


7 posted on 07/27/2016 6:45:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: C19fan

I love it when democrats and socialists get slapped in the face with democrat policies and socialism...


8 posted on 07/27/2016 6:46:02 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: C19fan

No problem. Republican property owners will use Madigan’s law firm to help avoid paying the property taxes, and the low information voters will bend over and pay. Done. No problem. See how this works? Illinois is not broke, it’s FIXED.


9 posted on 07/27/2016 6:47:04 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: C19fan

Yeah sure, the government giving away free stuff to people may sound really good, until you have to start fiooting the bill for it. As you said, you voted for this crook, Chicgoans. Shut up and send in your checks.


10 posted on 07/27/2016 6:47:48 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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Homeowners who can no longer afford their property taxes will put their homes on the market which will drive down the prices in the housing market...

which in turn lower values and decrease total tax revenue...

Solution...raise milage rates...

That will fix the problem / S


11 posted on 07/27/2016 6:51:05 AM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: neocon1984
That’s why I moved out of state, seven years ago.

Me too. I still miss the restaurants and the lake but I don't miss the taxes. Most of the people I knew there have also left, though fled is a better adjective.

12 posted on 07/27/2016 6:52:50 AM PDT by sailor76 (GO TRUMP!!! Make America Great Again!)
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It's like THESE people"

I keep this link handy for just such stories.

13 posted on 07/27/2016 6:54:44 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: C19fan

Exactly. The sheep who live in these Dem-dominated Hellholes never seem to understand that when they vote for Dems because the Dems promise them free stuff, they eventually will be paying for it.


14 posted on 07/27/2016 6:55:00 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Well, Some body has to pay for all that free Shiite.


15 posted on 07/27/2016 6:56:30 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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Just go’s to pros that even though you don’t own a dime on your home it’s still not truley yours.

The state and the local municipality actually own it.Your just renting.


16 posted on 07/27/2016 7:00:42 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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Now time to pay the piper.

Not even close!

The owner of a single-family home with the current average sale price of about $225,000 can expect to see a property tax bill of $3,633, an increase of about $413.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-chicago-property-tax-bills-met-0614-20160613-story.html

Just a few miles down the road in DuPage My $300,000 (?Zillow) house, I pay OVER $7,000 !!!

THEY CAN CRY ME A RIVER.

17 posted on 07/27/2016 7:04:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Looks like it's pretty hairy.)
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“”when property owners saw their second installment tax bills.””

What a goofy county! It’s the second installment bill and it’s not the same as the first installment?


18 posted on 07/27/2016 7:07:27 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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Wait a minute. I thought all those fat government worker pensions were paid for by unicorns and rainbows. Where did I go wrong?


19 posted on 07/27/2016 7:08:00 AM PDT by Gritty ("Our most effective response to terror is compassion, it's unity and it's love" - A/G Loretta Lynch)
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To: sailor76

Understandable sailor,
In Florida you can sail most of the year, in Chicago, not so much.
Here, no income tax.
I fled California decades ago for much the same reasons.


20 posted on 07/27/2016 7:10:37 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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