Rauner Comments on Chicago,Cook County Property Tax Bills; Silent on Bill That, If Signed, Would Hike School Taxes Outside of Chicago

From Governor Bruce Rauner:

Statement from Governor Rauner on Property Tax Bills

 SPRINGFIELD – Governor Rauner issued the following statement as many homeowners throughout Illinois face a deadline today to pay property taxes:

“Illinois residents are being hit with record property tax increases in communities all around the state even though they already pay the highest property taxes in the nation.

“People are literally being driven from their homes by the failure of the General Assembly to enact the reforms that would stop this unnecessary destruction of the American Dream.

“I think every day about the moms and dads who are cutting important things from their family budgets, from summer vacations to school activities to youth sports to tutoring and more.

“Parents are forced into tough choices because the leaders in Springfield have failed once again.

“Since 1990 property taxes have risen 3.3 times faster than Illinois median household incomes.

“Today, in many communities, particularly the south Cook County suburbs, property taxes now exceed mortgage payments.

“My proposals will stop the harm out-of-control property tax increases cause families and businesses.

“When I talk to people throughout Illinois, they tell me that they feel they have lost control of their own property and are simply renting it from the government.

“That is not fair. We must pass the reforms I have outlined to rein in and then lower property taxes.”

What You Can Do to Stop Higher School Taxes TODAY

Woodstock resident Susan Handlesman offers the following good advice of how you might influence Governor Bruce Rauner to veto a bill that is, if signed, is bound to increase local school taxes:

Contact Rauner: Stop schools’ tax cap evasion loophole, veto HB 5529

Bruce Rauner promised many times to rein in real estate taxes. This is his first chance to do so.

Schools have specific tax caps in discrete Funds. For example, 4% of EAV is maximum allowable rate in Education Fund.

Bruce Rauner promised many times to rein in real estate taxes. This is his first chance to do so.

Bruce Rauner promised many times to rein in real estate taxes. This is his first chance to do so.

One way schools evade these maximum rates allowed by law is to deliberately over-levy in another Fund (like Transportation Fund), then transfer excess accumulation of tax money into the tax capped Funds (like Education Fund).

This tax cap evasion loophole, which destroys the only real protection property taxpayers have left, is on Rauner’s desk to be signed.

The Governor has the power to STOP this House Bill 5529.

HB 5529 provides perversion of the spirit of the school code, which seeks to restrain school spending within (generous) limits relative to the means of the taxed community.

Link to email Rauner:

http://www.illinois.gov/gov/contactus/Pages/VoiceAnOpinion.aspx

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You can read about the most recent attempt, an illegal one, to over levy in the Transportation Fund by linking to the article below:


Comments

Rauner Comments on Chicago,Cook County Property Tax Bills; Silent on Bill That, If Signed, Would Hike School Taxes Outside of Chicago — 7 Comments

  1. 2% tax cap is the only reform that will offer property owners any real protection.

    You want to move money around; I could care less as long as I’m paying my 2% (which is indeed high as it is vs. the country average of 1.2%, if memory serves me) of my assessed property value.

  2. Let’s see if Bruce signs and approves this property tax hike AND signs and approves the bill that creates the “Muslim Council of Illinois” – THEN watch the Rauner-worshippers foam at the mouth as they continue to insist that he’s a “Republican”

  3. Robert Williams do you have a problem with Muslims residing in Illinois?

  4. Moderate, there ya go, the addition
    To your screen name totally works
    For you.

    It would be NICE if you left Robert
    Williams alone. 🙂

  5. Since ‘Moderate-Liberal was kind enough to ask the question let me start by answering YES, and then passing on this amazing tidbit on Crooked Hillery’s connections to the latest news on Muslim trash Khizer Kahn.

    You will all remember him from the DEMONCRAT convention that our very own beloved Lying Jack Franks just attended.

    Here it is for your view pleasure ………….

    Khizer Kahn – More To The Story

    The new media will NEVER tell you this.

    A little research on the Muslim father Khizer Kahn turned up this.

    “The law firm for which Kahn worked just COINCIDENTALLY (yeah, right) is also the law firm for the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia, the tax lawyers for Bill & Hillary Clinton (and the Clinton Foundation) and also where Loretta Lynch worked.

    Oh yeah, they also represent a small tech firm in Denver, CO.

    (yes, the same little firm that “managed” Hillary’s private server)”

    The COLLUSION AND CORRUPTION RUNS DEEPER THAN IMAGINABLE my friends!!!

    …no wonder the media is falling all over itself to defend this man.

  6. **Alabamaskate: McSweeney voted for this tax hike. So much for his anti tax credentials.**

    Oh look – missed this one.

    Allen Skillicorn pretending he’s me again.

    Good to know that Allen likes to attack the conservatives of his own party.

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