Chicagoist: More Taxes for Chicago?

matilda

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:07:38 -0600

Mcgirl: Great point and a needed reminder. This is all theater.

fed up

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:04:49 -0600

Mc girl How right you are the is plenty of tax money collected but a huge amount is stolen away into TIF accounts that Daley is able to use like a giant slush fund for his developer friends. No tax increase would be neccasary if TIF funds went into the general budget like they are supposed to instead of the pockets of Daley and the developers.

mcgirl

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:00:39 -0600

Maybe if Daley stopped diverting so much property tax $$$ to his TIF slush funds, there would be more money for the schools. http://www.chicagoreader.com/propertytaxes/

Ward Up

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:57:57 -0600

OK, so now Mumbles says "It's Sprinfield's fault." Let's see. Who is the person who is most responsible for ushering in and propping up the people who are running Springfield now? Daley, of course.

matilda

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:31:40 -0600

To be fair, Spav, Daley's old man really messed with the schools, too, in part because cared more about the teachers' union than the students.

peteypants

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:06:14 -0600

children ruin everything...we should invest these tax revenues into statewide birth control/sterilization.

simplecreature

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:03:14 -0600

With a 44% of CPS freshman not graduating we'd be better served putting the money in a big pile in the middle of the gym lining letting the kids vie for it in feats of strength and cunning. Taxing homeowners who are already at risk because of the credit collapse? Which will mean parents taking second and third jobs, spending less time with their kids...but hey more money for the Daleys! Yaaay!

Spav1

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:02:10 -0600

Not everything is all Springfield's fault. Why should people downstate have to pay for Daley's mismanagment of the CPS?

matilda

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:58:28 -0600

Quick: I think you describe the thinking of many people in Chicago. I see this as Daley merely setting up the villian for a CPS tax increase that is all but set in stone. Granted, the state's in worse shape than the city, but this seems more like theater than anything else. Chicago politics has made me hopelessly cynical.

smussy

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:45:11 -0600

oh, taxes. i suppose at heart, i'm what people accuse others of being as a 'tax and spend' democrat or whatever. i mean, really, i'm a democratic socialist. one's a political system, one's a money system. anyway, all that aside, when i think of a 10% sales tax, i just kind of shudder, and pretend that it's just not happening. that's crazy talk. i just wish my taxes were going to what i wanted them to go toward. then i really wouldn't care so much.

quicksloth

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:42:10 -0600

In my estimation, one of the very few things worth raising taxes for is education. That said, I don't trust the clowns we have in office at any level of government to spend those extra funds wisely, seeing that they do such a piss poor job of managing what they already have. So I'm conflicted you might say.