The Vulcan Lakes Tax Increment Financing district certainly must be important to someone(s) important.
Maybe a big advertiser or potential advertiser.
The Herald’s editorial is 19 inches long! It’s the entire length of the paper.
Has anyone ever seen a longer one?
The editorial was obviously written hurriedly.
How else could one explain the typographical error (“theyy”) in the editorial’s third line? Another appears in fourth line of the last section of the editorial: “The believe,” instead of “They believe.”
But, at least the paper does admit that there is a tax shift, even in its headline.
So much for the credibility of Mayor Shepley, whose line a Herald headline writer swallowed hook, line and sinker on Nov. 2nd. That was the day after the two school districts and park district testified that losing big chunks of its real estate tax base would force them to raise tax rates on everyone else to make up the difference.
In doing so, however, the Herald seems to demean the motivation behind the Crystal Lake Park District’s and School Districts 47’s & 155’s opposition:
They are taking a principled stand against the Vulcan Lakes tax district, not because they will be hurt but because the taxes are being “shifted” to other taxpayers.
What a concept!
Citizens we elect to represent our best interests sound the tax hike alarm when another tax district—the City of Crystal Lake—is about to raise property taxes for all citizens of McHenry County.
May this start a trend in McHenry County.