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Reagan's shining city on a hill comes to mind.
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"We want to give infinity money to the Jews..while leashing Israel because if they wipe out the Mud-Slimes we won't be able to launder money through them anymore"
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Complaining about it on the Internet when you have SOME course of action to take is DSP logic as well.
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Complaining = having an opinion
Course of action = voting
We're circling back to the original statement, just wording it differently.
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The right's dreams are not impossible to achieve.
A governor with a set of 10 lb balls could easily quell urban crime in his state by declaring blanket amnesty to anyone whose shooting of someone with a long rap sheet can be even remotely be classified as self-defense. A sort of "anti-soros" policy.
The trust levels in the social fabric of that state would rapidly improve to the point of embarrassment for blue america, and because it's a plenary power of the governor, there ain't shit the courts could do about it.
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In Chicago news...
Chicago Tribune (archive.ph)
By A.D. Quig
2023-10-30 10:00:00GMT
North suburban homeowners seeing biggest property tax increase in 30 years, treasurer’s analysis finds
Chicago Tribune (archive.ph)
By A.D. Quig
2023-10-30 10:00:00GMT
After months of delay, nearly 1.8 million property tax bills for Cook County home and business owners are landing in mailboxes this week, and many homeowners in the north and northwest suburbs are in for jarring news.
A new analysis from county Treasurer Maria Pappas’ research team found the median residential tax bill there increased by 15.7%, according to the report, “the largest percentage increase in the last 30 years.”
Residential properties in that part of the county are shouldering a greater share of the tax burden thanks to what one analyst termed a “perfect storm.”
Across all of Cook County’s 1.8 million parcels, taxes for 1.3 million homeowners and 94,000 commercial property owners went up, according to the report.
In the south suburbs, the median residential bill increased by 3.9% and the median commercial bill — for properties like offices, stores, warehouses and large apartment buildings — went up by 2%. In Chicago, the median homeowner’s bill went up 3%, while the commercial median bill rose only slightly more, 3.1%.
In all, property taxes across Cook County rose more than $909 million, to $17.6 billion, according to the analysis. That’s 5.4% higher than last year, but below the 8% rate of inflation for 2022.
Taxpayers typically see the biggest changes following reassessments, which happen every three years for different parts of the county.
Bills landing this week are the first to reflect new valuations from county Assessor Fritz Kaegi and appeals to the county’s Board of Review for properties outside the city of Chicago and north of North Avenue. Those second installment tax bills are due by Dec. 1 for all Cook County taxpayers.
How much each taxpayer owes depends on how much their local schools, park districts and governments raised property tax levies; whether the assessed value of their property rose or fell in relation to other homes and businesses after appeals; and whether their property was affected by special tax increment financing districts.
Several factors collided in the north suburbs, leading to the higher bills, according to Hal Dardick, a former Tribune reporter now at the treasurer’s office. He led the analysis along with Todd Lighty, another former Tribune reporter now working for Pappas.
COVID-19 adjustments Kaegi’s office made in 2020 reduced values by about 10%. That adjustment no longer applied to this round of assessments. At the same time, a pandemic-induced hot streak in the housing market boosted sale prices and values. That combination resulted in the assessed values of homes rising by nearly 27.8%, or $3.3 billion, according to the analysis. Commercial values rose by about $767.8 million, or 11.4%.
Appeals also added to homeowners’ share of the property tax burden. Property taxes are a zero-sum game: If commercial owners see their total share of all assessed value drop, then homeowners end up shouldering more — and vice versa.
The county’s Board of Review, which hears appeals to Kaegi’s numbers, “shaved nearly 20% off the total assessed value of commercial and industrial properties set by the Assessor’s Office” in the north suburbs, but granted reductions for “less than 2% the total value of residential properties.”
That shifted more of the burden onto homeowners. When it came time to calculate bills, “had the Assessor’s values not been overturned, about 1% of the tax burden would have shifted from homeowners to commercial properties,” according to the treasurer’s analysis. Instead, “about 3% of the burden shifted from commercial properties to homes.”
Overall, total taxes fell for commercial properties in the northern suburbs by $56 million, or 2.75%, compared with 2021.
Taken together, north suburban taxing bodies also raised their levies by about 6.6% compared with 2021, according to the analysis. (Chicago went up by about 5.4% and the south suburbs increased by about 4.4%.)
“When you combine the reversal of the residential COVID adjustments with the shift of burden from commercial to residential and also take into account the significant levy increases throughout the region, you end up with a perfect storm for residential properties that causes really a once-in-a-generation increase in the burden,” Dardick said.
Wayne Sherman, a 76-year-old retired office equipment salesman and IT analyst, has lived in his 1.5 story, three-bedroom frame home on a corner lot in Park Ridge with his wife for nearly half a century. When he received his assessment notice from Kaegi’s office, he was shocked to see his home value jump 65%. It went from $281,000 the previous year to $500,000.
He went to his local township assessor for help on his appeal, which knocked his home’s value down to about $475,000, according to county records. A follow-up call he placed to the township assessor for other options went unreturned, he said. When he tried again, they did not offer another recourse.
A property tax attorney might have encouraged him to take his case to the Board of Review for an appeal, but Sherman told the Tribune “they’re just looking for money too.”
When he looked up his bill earlier this month, it had jumped: His total for the 2022 tax year is $10,744. The year before, it was $6,532.
That 64% increase was higher than most of his neighbors: The median bill for homeowners in Park Ridge jumped 17% compared with 2022 and stands at $9,773, according to the treasurer’s analysis.
In tandem with his rising assessment, there’s another reason his bill jumped so dramatically. Sherman received two key tax breaks on this bill: the homeowner exemption (for those that use that house as their primary residence) and the senior exemption (for those over 65). But another break that Sherman previously received — the senior freeze — disappeared last year.
Between rising Social Security benefits, retirement savings, “some dividends and investments and taxable accounts,” Sherman said his earnings were a couple of thousand dollars above the $65,000 threshold to qualify for the tax break that freezes equalized assessed values.
That limit is set by lawmakers in Springfield and hasn’t changed since 2017.
Had Sherman received that senior freeze, the assessor’s office said his bill would have been $5,914. If his income falls and he qualifies next year, the base value would return to the $281,000 assessed value from 2021.
Levies set by local property taxing bodies also increased, according to the treasurer’s analysis. While the city of Park Ridge and its library district kept their levy about the same, all of the local school districts there, as well as the park district, raised theirs. So did the Cook County Forest Preserves and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Sherman says he’s confused and frustrated about why his assessment jumped so much, especially after seeing neighbors with similar homes sell for far less.
“Give me the $500,000, I’m out of here tomorrow, but I’ve had no offers. Obviously I’m not going to sell. I’m probably going to end up here until we both or one of us dies,” he told the Tribune. “I don’t have an unlimited amount.”
Among the suburban communities with the largest percentage increases in median bills for homeowners are Schiller Park, where the median tax grew by 29.7% to $6,387, and Des Plaines, where it grew by 28.7% to $6,067.
Suburban Melrose Park and Northlake faced even bigger hikes, in part because both are split by North Avenue and are assessed separately.
Homes north of North were reassessed at higher levels, while the homes south of the dividing line won’t have new values until next year. That ends up pushing more of the overall tax burden onto northern neighbors. Part of the increase north of the dividing line is the result of an increase of more than 10% in taxes sought by taxing districts in that city.
In Park Ridge, Sherman was blunt in his evaluation of his latest bill: “I don’t mind spending some money when you have to, but this is just greed and stealing without a gun and a ski mask.”[/quote]
A new analysis from county Treasurer Maria Pappas’ research team found the median residential tax bill there increased by 15.7%, according to the report, “the largest percentage increase in the last 30 years.”
Residential properties in that part of the county are shouldering a greater share of the tax burden thanks to what one analyst termed a “perfect storm.”
Across all of Cook County’s 1.8 million parcels, taxes for 1.3 million homeowners and 94,000 commercial property owners went up, according to the report.
In the south suburbs, the median residential bill increased by 3.9% and the median commercial bill — for properties like offices, stores, warehouses and large apartment buildings — went up by 2%. In Chicago, the median homeowner’s bill went up 3%, while the commercial median bill rose only slightly more, 3.1%.
In all, property taxes across Cook County rose more than $909 million, to $17.6 billion, according to the analysis. That’s 5.4% higher than last year, but below the 8% rate of inflation for 2022.
Taxpayers typically see the biggest changes following reassessments, which happen every three years for different parts of the county.
Bills landing this week are the first to reflect new valuations from county Assessor Fritz Kaegi and appeals to the county’s Board of Review for properties outside the city of Chicago and north of North Avenue. Those second installment tax bills are due by Dec. 1 for all Cook County taxpayers.
How much each taxpayer owes depends on how much their local schools, park districts and governments raised property tax levies; whether the assessed value of their property rose or fell in relation to other homes and businesses after appeals; and whether their property was affected by special tax increment financing districts.
Several factors collided in the north suburbs, leading to the higher bills, according to Hal Dardick, a former Tribune reporter now at the treasurer’s office. He led the analysis along with Todd Lighty, another former Tribune reporter now working for Pappas.
COVID-19 adjustments Kaegi’s office made in 2020 reduced values by about 10%. That adjustment no longer applied to this round of assessments. At the same time, a pandemic-induced hot streak in the housing market boosted sale prices and values. That combination resulted in the assessed values of homes rising by nearly 27.8%, or $3.3 billion, according to the analysis. Commercial values rose by about $767.8 million, or 11.4%.
Appeals also added to homeowners’ share of the property tax burden. Property taxes are a zero-sum game: If commercial owners see their total share of all assessed value drop, then homeowners end up shouldering more — and vice versa.
The county’s Board of Review, which hears appeals to Kaegi’s numbers, “shaved nearly 20% off the total assessed value of commercial and industrial properties set by the Assessor’s Office” in the north suburbs, but granted reductions for “less than 2% the total value of residential properties.”
That shifted more of the burden onto homeowners. When it came time to calculate bills, “had the Assessor’s values not been overturned, about 1% of the tax burden would have shifted from homeowners to commercial properties,” according to the treasurer’s analysis. Instead, “about 3% of the burden shifted from commercial properties to homes.”
Overall, total taxes fell for commercial properties in the northern suburbs by $56 million, or 2.75%, compared with 2021.
Taken together, north suburban taxing bodies also raised their levies by about 6.6% compared with 2021, according to the analysis. (Chicago went up by about 5.4% and the south suburbs increased by about 4.4%.)
“When you combine the reversal of the residential COVID adjustments with the shift of burden from commercial to residential and also take into account the significant levy increases throughout the region, you end up with a perfect storm for residential properties that causes really a once-in-a-generation increase in the burden,” Dardick said.
Wayne Sherman, a 76-year-old retired office equipment salesman and IT analyst, has lived in his 1.5 story, three-bedroom frame home on a corner lot in Park Ridge with his wife for nearly half a century. When he received his assessment notice from Kaegi’s office, he was shocked to see his home value jump 65%. It went from $281,000 the previous year to $500,000.
He went to his local township assessor for help on his appeal, which knocked his home’s value down to about $475,000, according to county records. A follow-up call he placed to the township assessor for other options went unreturned, he said. When he tried again, they did not offer another recourse.
A property tax attorney might have encouraged him to take his case to the Board of Review for an appeal, but Sherman told the Tribune “they’re just looking for money too.”
When he looked up his bill earlier this month, it had jumped: His total for the 2022 tax year is $10,744. The year before, it was $6,532.
That 64% increase was higher than most of his neighbors: The median bill for homeowners in Park Ridge jumped 17% compared with 2022 and stands at $9,773, according to the treasurer’s analysis.
In tandem with his rising assessment, there’s another reason his bill jumped so dramatically. Sherman received two key tax breaks on this bill: the homeowner exemption (for those that use that house as their primary residence) and the senior exemption (for those over 65). But another break that Sherman previously received — the senior freeze — disappeared last year.
Between rising Social Security benefits, retirement savings, “some dividends and investments and taxable accounts,” Sherman said his earnings were a couple of thousand dollars above the $65,000 threshold to qualify for the tax break that freezes equalized assessed values.
That limit is set by lawmakers in Springfield and hasn’t changed since 2017.
Had Sherman received that senior freeze, the assessor’s office said his bill would have been $5,914. If his income falls and he qualifies next year, the base value would return to the $281,000 assessed value from 2021.
Levies set by local property taxing bodies also increased, according to the treasurer’s analysis. While the city of Park Ridge and its library district kept their levy about the same, all of the local school districts there, as well as the park district, raised theirs. So did the Cook County Forest Preserves and Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Sherman says he’s confused and frustrated about why his assessment jumped so much, especially after seeing neighbors with similar homes sell for far less.
“Give me the $500,000, I’m out of here tomorrow, but I’ve had no offers. Obviously I’m not going to sell. I’m probably going to end up here until we both or one of us dies,” he told the Tribune. “I don’t have an unlimited amount.”
Among the suburban communities with the largest percentage increases in median bills for homeowners are Schiller Park, where the median tax grew by 29.7% to $6,387, and Des Plaines, where it grew by 28.7% to $6,067.
Suburban Melrose Park and Northlake faced even bigger hikes, in part because both are split by North Avenue and are assessed separately.
Homes north of North were reassessed at higher levels, while the homes south of the dividing line won’t have new values until next year. That ends up pushing more of the overall tax burden onto northern neighbors. Part of the increase north of the dividing line is the result of an increase of more than 10% in taxes sought by taxing districts in that city.
In Park Ridge, Sherman was blunt in his evaluation of his latest bill: “I don’t mind spending some money when you have to, but this is just greed and stealing without a gun and a ski mask.”[/quote]
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Referring to that kiked nigger faggot just as "faggot" is putting it too lightly over what kind of pigdog that kiked nigger faggot in charge of California is.
And Fox News cuckservatives have been giving him a helping hand by making him look competent just because he pwned Hannity in a debate.
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A constitutional amendment? LMAO. That's a nice way of saying "I want to virtue signal about this issue but I can't or don't want to expend the political capital required to actually take action on this"
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Oh I love how he tries and make a argument about "extremist judges". It's no wonder you never see faggots like these walk in public without a entire platoon of USSS security people would be unable to stop themselves from punching them.
Reminder that Californians voted to deny illegals government healthcare and education benefits and a judge unilaterally stopped it. It's ok when they do it, never even try and pretend they care at all. Whenever they try and pull shit like this just look them straight in the eye and say "no, fuck you, you do not care and we both know it".
Reminder that Californians voted to deny illegals government healthcare and education benefits and a judge unilaterally stopped it. It's ok when they do it, never even try and pretend they care at all. Whenever they try and pull shit like this just look them straight in the eye and say "no, fuck you, you do not care and we both know it".
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He has the judges in the 9th circuit doing most of the legwork in keeping his smaller laws around.
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I'll add to this that ok, you don't want to vote, fine. But what do you DO instead, unless you are preparing a manifesto and looking up infrastructure maps I'm not really seeing much of an alternative here either. I always find the "don't vote" argument absolutely retarded because by it's nature, it's trivial for the state to make shit up about who voted or not. Or when your district magically votes 90% democrat with 65% participation are you going to go around shaking people asking them if they voted or not? And even then, I've seen nations where voting quotas are abysmal and that doesn't stop the governing party from doing their thing and going with a shit eating grin on the TV to state how they have the people behind them when 30% of the population effectively voted for them, because people that don't vote, are invisible for the system. Unless we go back to that manifesto, you will remain invisible, voting at least lets you have some impact in local politics and if that's corrupted, you at least know where they live.
You ain't fixing that shit without blood. Well that, or accepting that you are incompatible with a third of the population of your nation and dividing which I still think is that the US should ideally head for if they want a way to stop the insanity.
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After DeSantis betrayed him Trump has really stopped letting shit slide. It's better to go on the attack first and and let them flail about.
Seems Reynolds isn't doing as well as i thought or certain rags seem to imply.
Seems Reynolds isn't doing as well as i thought or certain rags seem to imply.
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It's good that Meatball's teaming up with his mistress now and out in the open about it. Trump curse is going to make this backfire more, she will be a scolding mom again like at the state fair when people in Iowa make fun of them at the big announcement. The gay debate on Wednesday will be funny to watch now, he'll act like he's gained 20 points when at best, two. More than likely, nothing changes.
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I called it.Kim chose seppuku for some reason.
Interesting how Trump manages to override the psychopathy of the pathologically corrupt and force them to do the stupidest shit imaginable.
Unfortunately for Iowans, it looks like they're going to have to deal with a democrat governor for a while, because I'm not hearing anything about a primary challenge from the right.
National Socialism is still socialism.
It is not right wing.
Don't believe me? Here's a vid of a bunch of antifa clapping for hitler quotes they don't know come from hitler:
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It must be nice to be able to "peaceably" assemble for the redress of your grievances without a gang of black-bloc assholes attacking you.
Potatoherder
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She is in until 2026 so plenty of time get someone to run. The House and Senate also have republican majorities so she can't do too much damage.
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His smug aura and charisma build drives them into a frenzy state upon which they cannot correctly think things through.
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Well let's have a look at Reynolds Wrap herself
Very 2A Pro constitutional
Very anti abortion very limiting on troon rights
Largest Tax reform/ cut In Iowa history. If anything Meatballs track and record hurts her future campaigns goals
https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/103324/kim-reynolds
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What a difference 2 years and hundreds of thousands dead make.
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