Thought This Might HELP Property taxes: Where is all that money going?

If you are one of the few people who has the stomach to read your property tax bill, I share your pain. And confusion. And frustration.

I live in suburban Cook County in a house that was built in the 1950s. It's a modest house, but it's home and we love it.

Like most families, we live on a budget — unlike the governments to which we pay our property taxes.

Every month, more than 60 percent of our total housing payment — mortgage, interest and taxes — goes straight to property taxes. And every year, our property tax bill goes up.

Despite this, our neighbors and I constantly hear that we don't pay enough in taxes. Local government entities increase their tax levies. There are calls for referenda. In the meantime, our roads are covered with potholes and our public pensions are underfunded.

Where is all the money going?

To a prop up a broken, bloated government.
Illinois has nearly 7,000 units of government — more than any other state. Even California, with almost triple the population of Illinois, has at least 2,500 fewer taxing bodies than we do.

Is life so complicated in Illinois that we require the most layers of government in the country? Of course not.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commen...story.html


Thought This Might HELP

Got a LOVE the Democrats

Don't feel bad MN is taking a slow Shit on its People too