Guess What Time it Is?
Evidently, city government is being run as efficiently as possible - time to raise taxes!
- Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday said there’s “no question” residents will need to pay more in taxes or fees to plug a looming city budget shortfall estimated at more than $700 million.
Lightfoot made the comment, without elaborating on specifics, after her second City Council meeting, when she was asked about a campaign promise to find budget cuts before seeking a property tax increase. The city’s next budget will be presented in the fall.
“There’s no question we’re going to have to come to the taxpayers and ask for additional revenue. What that ask is, I think remains an open question because we’re still trying to get our arms around how big is the deficit for next year and what can we do to winnow it down,” Lightfoot said. “But I think we’ve got to demonstrate to taxpayers in the city that we are taking a different approach to running city government much more efficiently.”
Anyone know if Lightgroot has seen the graphics we put up about cutting redundant supervision in the Department? You know what's amazing about those charts? You can apply it to all sorts of city departments. Slash and burn middle management, starting with anyone who has the word "deputy" or "assistant" in their job titles. Then start on the aldercreature offices.
So just this year, the State has jacked up taxes, fees and penalties.
The schools have promised to limit-up their portion of the property tax levy.
And now Lightgroot is promising more pain for taxpayers, who can't leave Chicago, Cook County, Illinois fast enough.
So just this year, the State has jacked up taxes, fees and penalties.
The schools have promised to limit-up their portion of the property tax levy.
And now Lightgroot is promising more pain for taxpayers, who can't leave Chicago, Cook County, Illinois fast enough.
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
83 Comments:
Cut 30 alderman.
How about a lawsuit to overturn the residency rule. Even NYPD doesnt have to reside in New York City. The quality of life and the safety of our families in Chicago has turned to shit, these communist want bury themselves in taxes, lets do the smart thing and get out.
City could save money from Lightgroot's private security. Wondering how much that cost taxpayers....(CST or Trib)????
Gonna tax the government cheese too ?
From those with the ability to those with the need..... that is the shinning path, comrade.
What we are not told is that the path is paved with the reflective skulls of idiots who have lost their usefulness to the party.
The party leaders get wealthy and the people are destroyed by soul crushing poverty and idiotic bureaucracy.
Chicago has plenty of immigrants from former Soviet block countries. Ask their opinion.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/12/mercy-hospital-misidentified-victim-alfonso-bennett/
I know hospitalized victims have been identified by prints in the past. Is this something new? Official policy or ET supervisor decision? I can't believe there are that many that not printing them would be that big of a savings.
How about a tax on those terrible sugary soft drinks? Surely that'll raise some money. Oh wait...
Make me try to pay more taxes. Come over here am say it to my face!
Maiu style!
How about you uplift residency I'll take a pay cut... no decent citizen wants to live in this city just forced to
The Democrats squander the money, we will pay for it in higher taxes. Rinse, lather, repeat, ad infinitum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🔄
Lightfoot owns and accelerates the Daley-Emanuel Democratic death spiral.
Maybe Lightgroot and friends need to crack down and look at CPS and see where all those people lay down there heads at night Not the city where they should be. Many of our tax dollars being sucked up in the suburbs where they use the free school system where it’s not so fucked up. Come on people do your jobs you are paid for.
People of Chicago cant leave fast enough due to high crime and huge taxes but yet they keep voting these idiots into office..when will the morons learn? Thats right Mayor...thats your answer..raise more taxes since your way in over your head...perhaps 4 yrs is all your going to do because your going to kill this city like Obama did this country, Congratulations! Fuck you Mayor.
for a long time it was Daley, then Rahm, now Lightfoot, so....it could be asked, in terms of the future of Chicago....what difference does it make?
Please tell me your not surprised. This was predicted last year multiple tomes and even a projection of 30% increase in real estate taxes along with enormous fees increases. Cuts we don't need no stinking cuts in budget, what we need is more money from you. Why cut when you have a cash cow to carve up. Your staying the city, why? Yoyo just might want to rethink that answer. The real question is can you afford to stay in the city.
The Titanic and the iceberg coming
Enjoy your CLOUT!!!
Left years ago City and people sux
*neighbors cheated on their property taxes by paying to get them fixed
Lori says you can run and you cant hide
karmas a bitch
It would take half an hour with a piece of paper and a pencil to save $20 million in salaries from the CPD. I'm sure the CFD would be good for half of that.
How about a lawsuit to overturn the residency rule. Even NYPD doesnt have to reside in New York City
YES Who would want to buy your house?????? or sell for a loss???
-nobody investing in the city
and move out of state no burbs are cheaper or safe
Now bend over and enjoy
LL-We need more taxes to help the circle of poverty. Our taxes dollars need to be invested in our future, inner-city leaders, who struggle with lack of opportunities, no after school programs/job training/tutors, and gun violence, food desert, no money to get on the Red Lone to seek employment downtown. We need to give them hope and change Our behavior!
Shoulda voted for Vallas
It's the only answer Democrats know.
Not once do you ever hear of the Demorats cutting the waste, lets just raise more taxes!
And let's not forget all the legislators in Springfield just got a raise ($1300-1600?), courtesy of the Fat Boy and Mike Mad-again.
A raise? For what? Plunging us deeper into the financial abyss?
Lori needs to raise taxes to provide more programs and paychecks to her con artist social justice warriors who are destroying this city. How much is she paying these fake reverends and the violence interrupters aka gang members. Her people and folks want to get things for free and she’s going right along with it. She is not a mayor for the taxpayers in Chicago. She is only a mayor for the criminals and feral predators. She must be forced to resign.
What?? Slash middle mismanagement?! But I'm an important leader in the Department, as the Deputy Assistant Deputy to the Assistant Deputy, Forms Division Commander!
Went to get a license plate sticker yesterday. It came up to 108.dollars with a 7.50 fee attached. The guy working there says ALL plates will be 199.00 next year! Don't forget the 7.50 processing fee. I hope the idiots that voted Democrat enjoy eating this steaming, hot pile of shit, along with the taxes Lightgroot is promising. Me? I retired, selling my house and moving to a Red State. Enjoy eating the shit, democrats!
Chicago's real estate taxes are among the lowest in Cook County.
Compare the taxes on a $200,000 home in Chicago vs. a $200,000 home in Oak Lawn or Evergreen Park.
Leave Chicago. Life's to short.
Chicago has plenty of immigrants from former Soviet block countries. Ask their opinion.
A family members wife is from a eastern European former communist satellite. Votes straight dummycrap. It is ingrained in them as children to rely on the government.
6/13/2019 12:44:00 AM
The communist manifesto.
Raise taxes continually.
Raise taxes so high, private property is only owned by the aristocratic wealthy scum.
The collar counties and suburban cook have been getting fucked in obtrusive property taxes for decades. Now residents of Chicago the machine is finally forced to extort you. Bend over this is going to hurt.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Maybe Lightgroot and friends need to crack down and look at CPS and see where all those people lay down there heads at night Not the city where they should be. Many of our tax dollars being sucked up in the suburbs where they use the free school system where it’s not so fucked up. Come on people do your jobs you are paid for.
6/13/2019 03:30:00 AM
Hate to interrupt your dilution, but the school systems in the suburbs are not free. The property owners pay a lot of hard earned money into their property taxes. Nothing is free!
DUDE! The new Chicago motto:
CUT 30
I have 1 more year. Putting the papers on Sunday Than Arizona
Such positions are not redundant, they are one of government's primary objectives. To create well paying jobs (where no real work is done) for the connected.
Everyone needs to drop the fantasy ideas they were taught with regard to the purposes of government. Those are fiction. Fairy tales. Fairy tales to fleece the taxpayers and keep the government employees that do work doing it.
Government is a vehicle for the few to live well at the expense of the many and tell them how to live. It is a collection of various rackets and petty control freakism.
"People of Chicago cant leave fast enough" ... "but yet they keep voting these idiots into office"
Most of those leaving are probably on the losing ends of elections.
Those on the winning end of the elections see themselves benefiting from those idiots being in office.
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." - H. L. Mencken
Of course many of those fleeing will eventually recreate what they fled wherever they go. Because they won't see the problem as one of giving government power but only the wrong people being in charge.
Just one question for the democRATS! When you have finally chased the last middle class taxpayer and his/her extended family out of the state and you and all your cronies own everything in the state yet pay little in property taxes because of Mike and Ed's law firms....just wtf do you think is going to happen to the city, county & state? You think you are going to file bankruptcy for the state and wash it clean? You will have destroyed the American Dream and there will be no loyalty to the government but ANARCHY toward the democRATS and their greed! If you think the situation in shitcago is bad, wait.....
A simple and relatively easy solution to the city's budget crisis: reduce the number of aldermen. There are currently 50 aldermen and we can all agree, that's overkill, unnecessary and wasteful. There are currently 23 Police Districts. Reduce the number of aldermen from 50 to 23. They will have an office in the District station where they serve and will be accessible to their constituents. Their new boundaries would be that of the District's and would be responsible for its upkeep. How do we decide upon the 23 you ask? Simple, anyone with more than 20 years in office is gone. Give them their retirement (which they so diligently earned) and send them packing. If they refuse or resist, make them earn their votes from the communities they will be serving. It would be a cutthroat campaign and the corruption would be publicly exposed and indictments would fly. They would essentially destroy themselves. It would be entertaining to say the least. Just a thought...
It's howdy dowdy time?
Property tax increase = north side! So, because myself and my neighbors know how to behave ourselves, our properties are worth more! Properties, comparable to mine on the south side, pay two to three times less in taxes, just because they've made their neighborhoods shit holes! That leaves the residents of the north side to bear the tax burden for the entire city!
I ampayin 10,000 K In Edgebrooke never see a beat Car, only Niles on Caldwell same hse in Niles 7,500 great to Senior Citizens 20$ veg Satickers.
Can’t wait to retire and move out of this tax infested state and city.
Do what real businesses do when times are tough. Cut unnecessary capital projects like lakefront flyovers, bike lanes, large expensive park projects, etc. That funding should be going to infrastructure and roads. Yes, city personnel in all depts is top heavy and should be cut. And 50 aldermen are not needed. Many of them are unfit to serve. I see workers at city parks just sitting in offices doing nothing. The garbage crew in my area can easily be cut by one person. Two workers are not needed to empty cans. One does all the work while the other is on her phone, smoking and digging thru cans for stuff to take home. And why the hell does it take years to get a new garbage can when one is damaged? You’re charging for garbage pick up now so promptly replacing damaged cans is expected.
Get a handle on crime in the entire city so people will want to come here again and patronize businesses and restaurants. You’re in over your heads and need outside help. Stop beating on the police and blaming them for everything. And the Mayor has done nothing but inflame the relationship with the police by spewing and helping to spread untrue rumors. Real leaders do not lead this way. Have some class and professionalism. The problem is the SA office and courts who keep letting serious felonies go on low or no bond to victimize again.
Make it easier for new businesses to start up. It should not take years to get permits and zoning. This is potential tax revenue being wasted. And quite regulating everything under the sun. Things might speed up if people kept their hands out of the till.
Why is the 35th Street bridge by the river under constant construction for the last two years? Were the repairs not done correctly the first time around?
Don’t come around, Mayor, with anymore taxes until you have a bare bones budget with no waste. In the meantime, I hope the Feds roll up a bus and help out with the clean up.
Then comes the legal marijuana bullshit in January 2020, the city will also add Taxes to it the state is going to tax it to the limit, Which would be great why go after the homeowners and the taxpayers again? The most corrupt city the most corrupt County the most corrupt state in the entire United States of America and the federal authorities are doing what again? Ridiculous all this low hanging fruit and they just keep going and going and taking and taking and stealing and stealing ridiculous!
There’s lots and lots of waste to cut if she’s sincere about reforming.
The proof will be in the pudding.
How about a lawsuit to overturn the residency rule. Even NYPD doesnt have to reside in New York City. The quality of life and the safety of our families in Chicago has turned to shit, these communist want bury themselves in taxes, lets do the smart thing and get out.
6/13/2019 12:19:00 A
Do you think it hasn't been tried before. If it was attainable and a good case lawyers would be tripping over each other to file the lawsuit and pick up some big fees
Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about you uplift residency I'll take a pay cut... no decent citizen wants to live in this city just forced to
6/13/2019 02:00:00 AM
2.7 million people living in Chicago Not all are forced to. You sound stupid saying no decent citizen wants to live in Chicago.
Cut 30 alderman.
6/13/2019 12:14:00 AM
With a dull butter knife.
In the down low.
Done slowly.
Very slowly.
The 50 can draw straws.
The 20 remaining uncut can decide if they want another round of drawing straws, for the dull spoon cuttings.
The definition of insanity...Leftist democrats.
Why don't they put a referendum on the election ballot to decrease the aldermen from 50 to only 10 aldermen. You will NEVER see this on the election ballot. Why is the Chicago budget all fucked up ???? To much tax money spent on bull shit
With Lightfoot as Chicago mayor, I truly believe Toni Periwinkle would of been a better choice. I voted for Toni
Good morning going to work using the cta ahh and surprise welcome to chiraq:
Person found dead with blood on him at Loop bus stop: police
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2019/6/13/18677590/person-found-dead-blood-loop-bus-stop-madison-franklin
What about the children seeing this Lori your the New ceo and you have done what so far except race to California to raise money from your community gay and lesbian for more democratic destruction, the people die the elected lie. How many bodies must drop and be ventilating before you take charge? Maybe your new overpaid security director could offer ideas!
How about the City fine people for getting shot?
“There’s no question we’re going to have to come to the taxpayers and ask for additional revenue...”
Give me a frelling break.
‘Ask’ implies an option to say no.
Taking under threat is called robbery.
The new liaisons in each District, are they getting paid? She has also been adding to her staff. How about not adding to the layers of corruption.
It’s Dowdy Grootie time, it’s Dowdy Grootie time.
SpecialEd and Dowdy Grooot, say Howdy Groot to you !
Let's give a rousing cheer, cause Dowdy Grootie’s here,
It's time to start the taxin’, so the community can start relaxin’.
ShortShanks did it.
Rahm did it.
Even JB Hoghead in Springfield did it.
It’s Dowdy Grootie’s time !!!
I feel sorry for the residents of Chicago, but they elected this commie as mayor so for the next 4 or more years it's going to hurt.
pensions that run above inflation will always require taxes to be raised
Too bad Obama isn't still in office. He could arrange for a pallets with billions of dollars to be dropped off at Midway Airport in the middle of the night in a non-descript plane for local use. Kinda like the cool 130 billion or so he sent over to the terrorism sponsoring iran and their mullahs.
Could you imagine the democrat orgy and feeding frenzy if they received billions of unreported cash. As Biden related yesterday to the few in attendance at his rally there were no scandals during his eight years of office with Obama.
Notice she said the" TAXPAYERS" will have to pay more. That lets the criminals and dead beats off the hook. ♠️
Mayor Lightloot can offset the deficits with increasing the fees of Municipal identification cards for those non-residents. Model the fee increases after the F.O.I.D. card proposal by the state.
Use the much needed revenues from these increases to fund public education for the newest anchors, the affordable healthcare for all regardless of immigration status and assorted food sustenance programs. be sure to get fingerprints and run those name through available private databases which collect certain information on people to ensure no criminals have used the shadows to their advantage to conceal past illegal behaviors.
It is imperative to ensure this information is not shared with other federal government entities like ICE but rather only permissible uses like voter registration drives by S.E.I.U. volunteers with their get out the vote campaigns or other progressive lead information distribution efforts.
Have you seen the number of unregistered and non documented ad hoc food carts proliferating public corners? Can you imagine the revenue generated if the food carts had to purchase City of Chicago health license stickers and had to report all income for city sales taxes and declare personal income. Or how about a public way fee like rent just like those punitive property taxes for those antiquated brick and mortar restaurants for setting up shop on public sidewalks. Show those newest evading the rules entrepreneurs what a democrat city is like for everyone. Equally for all. Share the wealth or more accurately, the misery equally.
The type of people calling and harassing the police are the same scumbags that are leeches. They aren’t paying shit.
Anonymous said...
Went to get a license plate sticker yesterday. It came up to 108.dollars with a 7.50 fee attached. The guy working there says ALL plates will be 199.00 next year! Don't forget the 7.50 processing fee. I hope the idiots that voted Democrat enjoy eating this steaming, hot pile of shit, along with the taxes Lightgroot is promising. Me? I retired, selling my house and moving to a Red State. Enjoy eating the shit, democrats!
6/13/2019 08:07:00 AM
Went to get drivers license renewed effective 01Sep2020 if you don’t have the gold star on the upper right corner or a passport you cannot fly anywhere even in this once great country. If you want to follow Illinois law and have drivers license at your station address it is no
More, has to be your home address also needed a certified copy of birth certificate and marriage license, so over to crook county clerks office, $60.00 later back to Secretary of State office, thankful brought utilities bills in my name. Bottom line it took awhile and sos employees were helpful and said “when people realize no more flying next year without real I’d it will be totally chaos here!”
Get it now don’t wait if you want to fly this also applies to trains but if your an illegal criminal you don’t need anything looks like socialism against honest people is here!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Went to get a license plate sticker yesterday. It came up to 108.dollars with a 7.50 fee attached. The guy working there says ALL plates will be 199.00 next year! Don't forget the 7.50 processing fee. I hope the idiots that voted Democrat enjoy eating this steaming, hot pile of shit, along with the taxes Lightgroot is promising. Me? I retired, selling my house and moving to a Red State. Enjoy eating the shit, democrats!
I own property in another state and have ALL my vehicles registered there. The only thing I HAVE to do is get a city sticker. Cell phone, Internet service, vehicle insurance, etc. are billed at the out of state address. Next year when I retire, I'll be renting my paid off house at market rate to CHAC.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Went to get a license plate sticker yesterday. It came up to 108.dollars with a 7.50 fee attached. The guy working there says ALL plates will be 199.00 next year! Don't forget the 7.50 processing fee. I hope the idiots that voted Democrat enjoy eating this steaming, hot pile of shit, along with the taxes Lightgroot is promising. Me? I retired, selling my house and moving to a Red State. Enjoy eating the shit, democrats!
6/13/2019 08:07:00 AM
Renewed my plates yesterday for $108 used a check
You probably paid with a credit card. That’s what the fee was for
Pay with cash or cash , no fee
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/06/12/mercy-hospital-misidentified-victim-alfonso-bennett/
I know hospitalized victims have been identified by prints in the past. Is this something new? Official policy or ET supervisor decision? I can't believe there are that many that not printing them would be that big of a savings.
6/13/2019 01:07:00 AM
Taking fingerprints would be a seizure under 4th amendment. Do you really think that running prints through a computer program would be more expensive then using mushots? That conversation never happened.
Want to save $50 million? It's super easy. Just tell the 50 alderthieves that their $1M/each slush funds (umm, discretionary funds) have been cut to ZERO.
Now you're down to having to save $650 million. Shouldn't be too difficult to do that with a bit of analysis, and cost cutting. Well, for a normal person. For a spendthrift #HighTaxDemocrat it's going to be mindblowing.
Why is the 35th Street bridge by the river under constant construction for the last two years? Were the repairs not done correctly the first time around?
6/13/2019 10:35:00 AM
Just the 35th street bridge? 2 years isn't anything - the MORGAN Street ramp, etc. has been under construction for probably 5 years now... how long does that have to take?
... ASK for additional revenue ... ????
More like bend over and she'll tell us how much she's gonna TAKE!
Fuck You Lori
and while were at it, Fuck You too JB Blockhead
Bend over here it comes again. Time to get out of Detroit, I mean Chicago.
Yes, we have 50 useless aldercreatures who have all kinds of benefits that could be cut BIG TIME..What happened to "WE" are all supposed to make sacrifices in these rough times...meaning all city workers but alderman never seem to be a part of that solution just the problem. CUT Aldermen down! Start with CORRUPT and NON TRANSPARENT CITY HALL!!!
Residency is going to be put on the table by the mayor.
You will have to determine how much is it worth to you to live outside the City?
By this I mean giving she will give CPD a contract but will extract huge concessions in the
form of limits on pension COLA increases, 2 tier benefits and limitations on wages and
benefits on new hires etc
Caterpillar, General Motors, Ford, Com Ed, Gas Co etc all did some form of this.
The current pension systems are simply not sustainable for public employees
Killing the messenger will not change this.
effective 01Sep2020 if you don’t have the gold star on the upper right corner or a passport you cannot fly anywhere even in this once great country. If you want to follow Illinois law and have drivers license at your station address it is no
More, has to be your home address also needed a certified copy of birth certificate and marriage license, so over to crook county clerks office, $60.00 later back to Secretary of State office, thankful brought utilities bills in my name.
This has been common knowledge for about two years. You could have just got a passport but buying a passport is about 150 to 200 bucks.
But the real Id, they have made it very clear that in October you can't fly with out it.
Not just an IL thing either.
"Capt. Obvious" at 9:25 AM:
All wards must be of equal population based on U.S. Census figures. In a per capita comparison with the city council members of the nation's ten most populous cities (Chicago excluded), Chicago should have no more than seventeen (17) wards/city council members. Since CPD districts range in population from about 50,000 to 250,000 residents, it would be impossible to have an alderman for each district.
The CPD has twenty-two (22) districts; not twenty-three (23).
Next year's 2020 U.S. Decennial Census will certainly show a loss in Chicago's population. Maybe even 15 wards would be excessive depending on the City's population decline.
And why the hell does it take years to get a new garbage can when one is damaged? You’re charging for garbage pick up now so promptly replacing damaged cans is expected.
A couple years ago I was told that the cans were on 6 month backorder. Had a
conversation with Sposato about a week ago. He said if someone in the ward needs a can he pays for it out of his aldermanic budget, because he knows the city takes too long
Pensions. Tax-free income paid for people to do nothing. Originally were to be paid at age 70. Was supposed to be supplemental income.
Pensions have become lottery tickets.
Data from Illinois’ six largest pension systems show 19,158 former government workers collect annual pensions of more than $100,000, costing those systems nearly $2.4 billion combined in fiscal year 2018.
Six-figure pensioners enrolled in those systems contributed an average of $160,100 toward their own retirements over the course of their careers, and retired on average at age 59.
The top annual earner among the six systems is University of Illinois, Chicago professor emeritus Tapas Das Gupta, who received nearly $504,700 in fiscal year 2018. He has accumulated more than $6 million in benefits since retiring, despite having contributed only $475,300 to SURS – less than 8 percent of his total pension earnings.
Timothy Tully, who retired from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale at age 55, received $376,500 in benefits over the year, despite having contributed a total of just $43,600 to the fund during his career.
John Folse, another Southern Illinois University retiree, received $303,400 from SURS this year, and has collected more than $4.4 million total since retiring – the third-highest total among all enrollees. He contributed only $288,200 to his retirement plan – less than 7 percent of his total benefits.
Calling her "Lightgroot", SCC, is almost a compliment. She needs something more appropriate.
Raising taxes equals more flight. How is this a good thing?
6/13/2019 10:45:00 PM
The ONLY high earners on the pension is the fucking liberal thief's at state colleges.
Democrats LOVE raising taxes.
They get their rocks off doing it.
Chicago doesn't need 50 aldermen. Want to save money, get rid of 40 aldermen and have only 10 aldermen and 10 wards. You wont see this on an election referendum !!!!!!!!!!
You will have to determine how much is it worth to you to live outside the City?
By this I mean giving she will give CPD a contract but will extract huge concessions in the
form of limits on pension COLA increases, 2 tier benefits and limitations on wages and
benefits on new hires etc
Where have you been? There are already two tier for new hires when it comes to benefits and pensions
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