[StoneWall Brigade]

Yikes

[unixfox]

Illinois has nearly 7,000 units of local government.

The government they deserve.

[citizen]

Well....move.

[eyeamok]

It almost sounds like the writer has some crazy idea that the money earned by citizens is their’s? Obviously the Papers Drug Testing policy is severely lacking.

All Money belongs to the Government, you are only allowed to keep a small portion as we see fit, got it.

[Jonty30]

Illinois is so finished as a state. Seriously, states should be forced to become territories and then made to get their books in order before they can reapply to join the union.

[BipolarBob]

New Jersey will take this as a double dog dare to increase their taxes to compete for the No.1 spot.

[Theodore R.]

So many in all states just love paying property taxes and all other kinds of taxes too. Louisiana just had some local elections, and tax renewals won overwhelmingly nearly everywhere; this is after a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax.

[2banana]

Upstate NYS or NJ will win.

No joke.

A nice 4 bd 2.5 bath on 1/3 acre will run you $25k/year in prop taxes anywhere in NJ above 195...

[Vince Ferrer]

Governments love property taxes because the real estate can’t flee the state. So they figure that someone will be stuck paying for it, no matter what they charge. However, the property taxes cut into the value of the property, until the value of the property approaches zero. Like Detroit.

[Chode]

i'm sure welfare takes up most of the rest, not much left for anything else

[taildragger]

The Revenge of Meredith Whitney, she warned us...

[MileHi]

Many homeowners in Illinois are now paying twice for their houses over their lifetimes — once to the bank, and once to the government through property taxes.

Well, yeah, but it's such a great place to live...

[Aliska]

Illinois got $6,297 in property taxes out of me in 2015. I don’t know how that would measure up against other states.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Couple the increase in property taxes with the proposed “tax by the mile” for Illinois drivers and it will start looking like Detroit. Yes, the whole state will start looking like Detroit.

[Chgogal]

FYI

Interesting fodder for us local taxpayers. When will my fellow Dummycrats wake up? It seems only Republicans complain about taxes. My Dummycrat friends don't seem to mind the increases. : (

[DoughtyOne]

[minnesota_bound]

My aunt & uncle in Parsippany, NJ (near NY city) were paying $9,600 a year in property tax in 2003. I bet it is much higher now.
They had originally paid $43,000 for their single story home in 1959.
They are renters to the gov’t.

[Freedom56v2]

One of those units of government is the Naperville Township Road District, where seven employees maintain less than 20 miles of road at a cost of $116,000 per mile. City officials have said they could maintain the same distance at half the cost, and have moved to take over the road district’s duties on behalf of local taxpayers.

Wonder how I can find out where those 20 miles of road are...This is outrageous!!!

[johniegrad]

Teachers union corruption at its best. In no time flat they'll be unable to meet their payout obligations because of laundering money for the democratic machine. Then the Illinois democrats will raise taxes on property owners once again to cover te shortfall. The residents of Chicago, who control the rest of the state won't care because they are all net income takers rather than contributors.

The cycle never ends until everyone productive leaves the state and abandons the unions to the welfare scum.

[P.O.E.]

If only they took all the money they spent on defense and spent it on the poor.

Oh, wait, that old chestnut is only for the federal.

Hmm, it’s a mystery I tells ya.