From former Cary Grade School Board President Scott Coffey:
I have been reading the recent NW Herald articles outlining the the tax levy increases adopted by the various taxing bodies located in Crystal Lake.
The City of Crystal Lake, District 155 and District 47 all recently approved tentative balloon levies that capture all the new construction as well as take the maximum increase on existing homeowners allowed under the PTELL [Tax Cap]law of CPI at 1.9%.
What was odd about the articles is they all quote a key member of each taxing body identically spinning the tax increase as if an average taxpayer would actually see a decrease in their tax bill.
Here are the three quotes:
- District 47: “Nelson said if the assessed value of a person’s home did not change, the owner of a $300,000 home potentially would see a decrease of $150 in their property taxes.”
https://www.nwherald.com/2019/11/19/district-47-approves-tentative-levy-increase/agspq9g/ - District 155: “If a homeowner in the area had a $250,000 house, and it did not depreciate in value, they would see a reduction of about $40 on their property tax bill. The only way a homeowner would see an increase is if their assessment goes up, Davis said.”
https://www.nwherald.com/2019/11/25/crystal-lake-community-high-school-district-155-approves-2-75-tax-levy-increase/aso17d6/ - City of Crystal Lake: “A resident with a $200,000 home, if their net taxable amount of a property in tax year 2018 remains the same for tax year 2019, is estimated to see a slight decrease in their 2019 tax bill.”
https://www.nwherald.com/2019/12/04/crystal-lake-city-council-approves-3-86-increase-in-property-tax-levy/aega563/
The above comments are seemingly meant to deceive the reader in believing that they may actually see a tax cut, however, it requires a homeowner’s assessment see no change from prior year when we know the average assessment increase over prior year is between 4.9% to 5.8% for these three taxing bodies.
Given the average homeowner will see an assessment increase in excess of 5%, and each taxing body has voted to increase the levy the maximum under the law, one can conclude that an average homeowner will see an increase in their property tax bill, not a decrease as these quotes in the newspaper assert.
While there may be a few of the 40,000+ parcels within these overlapping taxing entities that do not see an assessment increase, they will be few and far between.
I’m not sure which is worse.
That each entity concocted an example to deceive the residents as to the overall effect of their levy increase decisions or that they seemingly coordinated with each other to use the same deceptive example.
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McHenry County College also taxed to the max for next year.
Coffey:
you are right, however you are speaking to voters/non-voters who are either EVIL or “willfully ignorant”
EVIL:Those who are gaming the system (teachers, households of publicly-guaranteed pensions) are laughing at all the willfully-ignorant voters/non-voters all the way to the bank, from age 55 to age:whatever-lifespan–genetic-engineering-makes possible-in-the-next-50-years.
Voters/non-voters in McHenry County are lazy, willfully ignorant, and SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT THEY CAN MOVE AND NOT LOSE THEIR LIFE’S SAVINGS (by abandoning mortgage obligation contracts because defaulted-mortgage-contracts mean nothing in terms of consequences to actual borrower post-2008).
Local banks are smart enough to know they can palm off mortgage risk instantly and at the same rates as “good risk’ communities do so.
McHenry County is, by empirical evidence, a toxic waste dump of sociopaths who are dealing for themselves (teachers with TRS pension entitlements and locally-guaranteed OPEBs, and public government employees receiving IMRF pension entitlements, and attorneys/consultants making enough from government contracts to not care),
and useful idiots too lazy to realize that their property value is being monetized down to negative value to fund the sociopaths’ agendae….or useful idiots bamboozled to think that their free-ride will last forever and is actually personally beneficial.
Still EVIL: they do not mind their own good fortune to come at the expense of someone else’s BAD outcome.
Or people who are stuck: property here has become so devalued over the past 20 years that one cannot afford to move, or people who still believe a contract is a moral obligation and mortgage debts are to be honored.
So, posting factual information is valuable…how?
If a TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST, AND PEOPLE ARE NOT THERE TO HEAR IT (WILLFUL IGNORANCE=potential evil) AND THE PEOPLE IN THE FOREST DENY HEARING IT (EVIL)…who cares?
Coffey, I ask you to join in a concerted effort to demand that people in our local communities pick a side:
EVIL+POTENTIAL EVIL (willfully ignorant)
or
WILLFULLY NON-EVIL
We can describe an algorithm for the 2 sides easily, because all over America, social service provision is accomplished “within the means of the community served”.
In McHenry County, compared with ALL OVER AMERICA, the amount of taxes demanded for social service provision are extreme outliers–hundreds of percents higher–compared to everywhere else in America.
This is also factoring in State taxes and sales taxes and every other taxes that EVIL predators who profit from the McHenry County Illinois predatory taxation system trot out to obfuscate and distract from the actual issue under discussion.
PREMISE: McHenry County Illinois is EVIL and its taxation is EVIL. Those who profit by it are EVIL and have zero incentive to change, because they are getting rich from the EVIL system.
Like Bell County California, the McHenry County Illinois local system is so corrupt and incestuous, and the voting/non-voting population so (willfully) ignorant, that Federal sources—OR OTHER SOURCES SUCH AS CROWD-SOURCED WISDOM– need to be brought in to police and enforce laws which were meant to protect taxpayers but are perverted and conscripted by EVIL predators.
Everyone can be assumed to have picked a side.
Again, Illinois math works best for those on the receiving end of the plunder.
Yup all the school district boards went Democrat!
That’s what happens with Democrats-they tax to the max .
And MCC, boo!
The board shifted there too.
@Susan
How about changing the law so that civil servants and those receiving civil service pensions are banned from voting or holding any elected office?
Throw welfare recipients into that group also.
Those who live off of the taxpayers really shouldn’t have any say about how taxpayer money is spent.
I could get behind a law like that.
There was a lot of wisdom behind the old policy of only allowing property owners to vote.