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@Mahkno :
Somebody needs to tell the GOP in the State Legislature that. Because after the budget was passed, many GOP lawmakers flooded media email boxes with propaganda saying that Pritzker didn't do anything about higher property taxes, and that the budget included $800 million dollars in increased taxes and fees.
But no details where in the budget. My opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.Gray boxed for being political and/or controversial in a General Chat discussion.
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@DennisinPeoria :
I find that either two things are true when people ***** and moan about property taxes. First is that they do not understand how it works. Second, that there is an agenda at play counting on the first to be true. The people in power, writing bills, know full well how it works. They are counting n people to be ignorant. The biggest driver I see in some people experiencing surging property taxes, is their surging valuation due to home sales. Surging home valuations have been a hot topic since 2020. Other areas are cratering. Inflation is certainly playing a role in rural areas. It can't be helped... not by local taxing authorities.There real problem... which has been a decades long trend are the growing wealth gap and the stagnate earnings when compared to productivity and inflation. It's not that the taxes are going up that is causing the problems... its that wages have not been keeping up for decades... since Reagan. The middle class is shrinking and so is it's buying power. We have been living through the greatest wealth transfer from the lower and middle classes to the investor class, in history. The wealth gap today is greater than before the 1929 crash. There is a case to be made that the wealth gap is on par with what existed prior to the French revolution. These are the consequences of decisions made over multiple adminstrations.Gray boxed for being political and/or controversial in a General Chat discussion.
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