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Honestly, this is one of the reasons I am looking to move out of state. Eventually somethings gotta give and I am assuming it will be much higher state and prop

• Leader2light 9y ago
  My parents pay 15k taxes on a 280k home. Get out while you can even still sell your home.
• concrete-faucet 9y ago
  > Eventually somethings gotta give and I am assuming it will be much higher state and property taxes Well since y'all refuse to consolidate governmental units, it will be higher property taxes. A typical suburb with 50,000 people has its own police department, its own fire department, its own library system, its own parks department, road department, etc. Two school systems (K-8 and high school), each with a full administration! Drive your car, cross an intersection, and now you are in some other identical suburb of 50,000 people with all those same governmental units. I know you want your community to feel like a little village, and your community is better than the one next door, so you'll never vote to combine into one. This is how much it costs. Someone pays $15000 per year tax on a $280000 house. I pay $9000 per year on a $650000 condo. I share the cost of a police chief with 2.7 million people and you share it with 50,000.
  • sol_remmy 9y ago
    > I share the cost of a police chief with 2.7 million people and you share it with 50,000. And you wonder why people feel helpless to control the endemic corruption within the Chicago urban limits..