Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Property values fall, yet taxes go up
ABC Local ^ | 9/23/11 | Charles Thomas

Posted on 09/25/2011 7:15:52 AM PDT by Libloather

Property values fall, yet taxes go up
Charles Thomas
Friday, September 23, 2011

(CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Cook County property tax bills will go out next month, and homeowners will be asked to pay more for having less.

Even though most property values have dropped over the past three years, most property tax bills will be going up again.

Falling property values and rising property taxes have turned the American dream for many into a nightmare in virtually every county in the state.

Nowhere in Cook County have home prices fallen more dramatically than in the northern and northwestern suburbs -- anywhere from 10 to 14 percent since houses there were last assessed.

Skokie homeowner Jill Dillard says any property tax increase will be difficult to accept.

"When your house isn't worth as much as it was but yet you have to pay more in taxes, it just doesn't seem right," said Dillard.

(Excerpt) Read more at abclocal.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicago; property; taxes; value
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last
EVERYONE is rich - in Obamaland! Whoohoo!
1 posted on 09/25/2011 7:16:02 AM PDT by Libloather
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Libloather

My town did similar.

Our homes all dropped about $100,000 in value since last town valuation (2006). My neighbors took solace, thinking they would have a reduced property tax bill. I LMAO.

And of course the town simply raised the rate per thousand to get same (or more) revenue.

You don’t think the hacks would ever make cuts?


2 posted on 09/25/2011 7:20:32 AM PDT by nhwingut (Palin '12... Accept No Other)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

A couple years ago, here in Summit County, Ohio, they dropped the value of my house byb$1,500,,,, and raised the value of my lot by $10,000.


3 posted on 09/25/2011 7:21:24 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

That happened to us here in Jefferson Parish, LA. Our local newspaper had a big headline a few weeks ago saying that property values were at 2004 levels, yet our property tax bill that we received shortly thereafter had gone up.


4 posted on 09/25/2011 7:23:35 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

And again I ask, will there ever be a day when the multitude of lazy, apathetic, ignorant, brain-dead citizenry of this country figure out that liberals are the cause of this continuing calamity?!


5 posted on 09/25/2011 7:25:26 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nhwingut
And of course the town simply raised the rate per thousand to get same (or more) revenue.

And you better cough up the loot or risk losing the house. Not to worry - it's all for the common good.

6 posted on 09/25/2011 7:27:43 AM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: nhwingut
And of course the town simply raised the rate per thousand to get same (or more) revenue.

G-d forbid they take it out of the public school budget...

7 posted on 09/25/2011 7:27:44 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Libloather
I'm a taxpayer. I'm a contributor to the government and the schools, and all that other stuff. Those costs don't change for the government based on the housing market.

Ah naivte is a wonderful thing to watch. Of course the costs for government services go up when there is the expectation that more money is available. That is how it works, and that is why the government is such a lousy customer on behalf of the public. The guys in charge were put in charge to keep increasing the take and the dole out to those on the take. It is everywhere in every transaction every government engages in. And now the jig is up because we ran out of money 8 years ago, and now have run out our credit line as well.

8 posted on 09/25/2011 7:29:21 AM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Chicago elects democrats. They are getting what they deserve.

Unfortunately, Pima County (where I live) elects democrats too...but many of the democrats don’t own property.


9 posted on 09/25/2011 7:33:04 AM PDT by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Since the long-term Obamugabe plan is to turn the government into the landlord, this makes abundant sense. A small part of the people won’t be able to pay the tax, then there will be a lien, etc. with the property finally seized.

Maybe a large corporation or union will then administer the properties —some entity that is backer of The System.

This is all about transferring private wealth into public coffers —witness GE, GM. etc.

Same deal.


10 posted on 09/25/2011 7:41:23 AM PDT by gaijin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

EVERYONE is rich - in Obamaland! Whoohoo!
Yea, how’s that hope and change crap working out for you?


11 posted on 09/25/2011 7:43:44 AM PDT by 9422WMR
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Republicans are doing the same thing all over the country. When it comes to the greed of govt there are no political parties. There are only grasping corrupt politicians no matter what names they call themselves.


12 posted on 09/25/2011 7:44:50 AM PDT by Seruzawa (Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for good a blaster kid.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr Rogers

We are in Maricopa. Our property taxes did go down this year.


13 posted on 09/25/2011 7:47:32 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

there is no limit to the greed of public servants.

public parasites would be more accurate.


14 posted on 09/25/2011 7:47:37 AM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Common Sense 101

Who is John Galt?


15 posted on 09/25/2011 7:49:39 AM PDT by Mountain Troll (My investment plan - Canned food and shotguns)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: gaijin
In may ways that is close to what happened in the Roman Empire starting in the 2nd - 3rd century. Eventually most could not afford land except the politically connected. So they sold to the politically connect in order to still work on it. Its how serfdom evolved into the middle ages. People eventually became inseparably tided to the land that there ancestors once owned or worked.
16 posted on 09/25/2011 7:56:41 AM PDT by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: nhwingut

Yep. And the real icing on the cake is that they figure values will go backup and they can keep the higher rates.

If values go back up, you will get doubly reamed out.


17 posted on 09/25/2011 7:58:31 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Libloather

Here in Texas, both property values and taxes continue to rise. Every year, but one, of the past two decades my taxes have risen over 10+% (fuzzy math and rounding up over the “legal” limit). There hasn’t been a lull in construction here and more out of staters and illegals are moving in.


18 posted on 09/25/2011 8:00:33 AM PDT by bgill (There, happy now?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Libloather
There has to be a few more drops of blood in the turnip if O’Bungle and his cohorts just squeeze hard enough.
19 posted on 09/25/2011 8:02:33 AM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChildOfThe60s

Actually, rates do tend to drop when values recover. However, the drop is never nearly as much as the original increase, so property taxes do in fact continue to rise indefinitely.


20 posted on 09/25/2011 8:04:12 AM PDT by flintsilver7 (Honest reporting hasn't caught on in the United States.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson