Illinois politicians envision a federally funded welfare state for themselves with perpetual re-election.
States are being absorbed into the federal Borg.
To hell with the working class.
15k in taxes on a 227k house is inSANE !
New York had the same problem. Expect prosperous taxpayers to leave the solid blue states in favor of greener (redder?) pastures. The libs can’t get it out of their heads that if they just squeeze that goose hard enough, they’ll get more golden eggs.
Its this way in other places as well. NH has a very high property tax dependent on the town of residence. Along the lakes up N many retirees move out of their homes in the summer and rent them to come up with taxes. I know some relief is given but not enough. When they bought the properlty taxes were low. However, real estate in the area has exploded in value making it nearly unaffordable for those on fixed incomes. If you dont pay the taxes eventually the town puts you out of your own home and sells the property for the taxes. Ive seen this happen in my own town. The town attorney saw no problem putting people out...he didnt understand the fuss.
I guess they're auditioning for post-retirement jobs with the NFL's front offices.
Yep. And adding insult to injury is the completely irrational and inequitable variance in assessments across the board (at least in our little county). I’d say the system is due for overhaul or elimination one way or the other. Hopefully it’ll be the voluntary, disciplined, controlled, path rather than the alternative.
Basically the state owns your house and is charging you rent.
but, of course, its "for the children"....
I would love to see these pensions paid out to the state "workers" only if they live in that state, the hell holes they've created...
Illinois has a massive problem with residents leaving the state for greener pastures.”
Wait! OBAMA was going to fix all these problems!
Where did all the HOPE and Change go to?
But they’ll still vote DEMOCRAT...........in Illinois............
Considering how much Il and municipal public pension plans are in the red you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Makes me grateful for Prop 13 in California (one of the few things positive in this state). It restricts property taxes increases to no more than 2% per year from its starting point (ours is increasing 0.9% this coming tax period).
Those seniors who have been in their houses for at least a couple of decades see far lower property tax bills than those who purchased in the same neighborhood in recent years.
While property tax in California starts out at around 1% of the purchase price, compared to almost 7% of property value in Illnois, the cost of housing in most of California is ridiculously overpriced. That results in some fairly large property tax bills.
Having said that, the DEMs have been fighting like mad to try and repeal Prop 13. They may yet succeed, but even the rich liberals don't want to see the outcome from that happenning.
The more people that leave Illinois, the smaller the tax base. Yet politicians insist on spending even more money and raising taxes to make up the loss.
If the tax don’t getcha, then the health care will....ya haul 16 tons, whaddya you get...
Illinois, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Illinois Democrat Party, Michael Madigan prop.
That number is a "net". They count illegals, so if you take out illegals, Illinois has lost over 10%, about 1,300,000 people.
They did pick up over a million Mexicans. Enough to make Chicago the 3d largest Mexican city in the world after L.A. and Mexico City.
But too many of them bring their voting habits with them and then wonder why the area that they moved to is going to hell-in-a-handbasket as well ...
This is the price you rich crackuhs pay for your white privilege. You want to live away from the ‘diverse’ neighborhoods but by God you’re going to pay for the diverse neighborhoods.