You Can't Tax the Dead....
....but in Illinois, the dead will tax you soon:
- Illinois Democrats have figured out a way to tax “the dead”.
Your property tax bill may soon have a new line item - Cemetery district tax.
Illinois is the state with the most taxing districts in the entire country, and this new proposed legislation would create thousands of new cemetery taxing districts in Illinois.
HB5084 would force the mandatory conversion of cemetery associations effective January 1, 2027. All existing cemetery associations in Illinois would be automatically incorporated as cemetery maintenance districts under the cemetery maintenance district act.
In the past, illinois’ cemetery association act historically has allowed private or nonprofit associations to own and operate cemeteries.
If this legislation becomes law, it would allow each district to become a “taxing body“ and be able to levy additional property taxes on homeowners and businesses. Each cemetery district would have a “board of trustees” who would gain the statutory authority to levy property taxes on all taxable properties within the cemetery district boundary.
This will cause your property taxes to increase.
Joliet area State Rep. Democrat Natalie Manley is sponsor of the cemetery tax.
There are some places we worked where there are two or three separate cemeteries within a District, and another few with zero. Lincoln Park used to be a cemetery and there are still a few gravestones if you know where to look. Then there's that unmarked insane asylum cemetery up north, and lord only knows where Gacy buried all his other victims - are those cemeteries, too?
Are they going to tax everyone within a certain radius of said cemetery? Or a blanket taxing body for the entire city? And exactly what benefit are we all supposed to see as a result of these new taxes?
Labels: dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
46 Comments:
TAX'EM......What the fuck they going to do...move the dead...
Plus...new jobs for the "Trusties" ...salary starts at say...$150,000 year...
Just tax'em and fuck'em if they complain....
Politicians, like a CPD brass, like to change things that don’t need changing, mostly because they think it makes them look smart.
"Taxing body." Body. Bodies. Hee, hee.
The dead vote in Illinois. Why shouldn't they be involved in taxation?
Vote against democrats!
Moraine Township in Highland Park has two cemeteries... one is about 5 graves in a mound of dirt in the middle of the street... other about 200 graves. So will the township get to double tax for this bullshit now?
democrats: never cease to tax
The continued Fleecing of the people IL.
I guess family members of local demoRats need paying jobs and what better place but on another board authorized to operate by the state. Last I counted 017 has four cemeteries. I can see gerrymandering the boundaries of cemetery district when multiple cemeteries are within a certain distance from each other. So does Resthaven Cemetery tax the airlines, businesses along York Rd, trucking firms operating within O’Hare, and the food/drink/dry good businesses operating on airport land?
The looney left Demotards never cease to amaze us with their bizarre and freaky ideas. This shows why we need to reopen the mental hospitals. Too many lunatics have invaded our government offices.
More dumb shit from Hellinoise dumbocrats
Well, the dead here do vote, may as well tax them.
So, like the chopper, badly maintained? Shame, they're kind of like little parks to walk through. There's one south with big old owls in it....
One more reason to never vote for a Democrat in Illinois.
Cook County sheriff’s police officers will also be working on CTA rail lines.
Calling all Zombies!
Calling all Zombies!
Our precious heritage of Zombielands are being STOLEN by those greedy miscreant maggot pre-zombie fetus fleshbags!!!!
First they dared to cast ballots in our names, then they made movies mocked our natural desiries to feast on their succulant flesh, and now they invade our sacred lands to profit from our serene, and vastly peaceful pastures!!!
Since their futures' are our presents', and their present activities will be remembered by us, as they become us, have they no respect for their future selves' past revered progenitors!????!???!!!
well, just look how many democRATic votes come out of the cemeteries,,, they gotta pay them back somehow
If the dead can vote in Illinois, why shouldn’t the good citizens compensate them for their votes?
If the associations are converted into taxing bodies, is the next step going to be for the state to assume control of the cemeteries? Thus doling out lucrative patronage jobs to the future connected few for non existent hired trucks, or to maintain the parking meters. Maybe they can get in on installing red light cameras in the cemeteries streets. We don wan no headstone no body don sent!
Here's the scam. When you buy a grave, part of the cost is perpetual maintenance. That part is put into a trust, so that there should always be money to maintain the graves/cemetery. If you have cemetery districts, the distict or local government gains access to all those funds to steal, if they haven't been stolen already to waste on whatever new bright idea these crooks come up with. Then we tax to "maintain the poor deads' grave", but use the funds for pet projects. These commies are rotten enough to steal from the dead.
Manley must be working some angle with funeral homes.
WTF these stupid democraps sit around thinking of different ways to tax the shit out of us instead of making life better
It looks like democrats love creating taxes as much as they do raising taxes.
Once the cemeteries become public property they can setup tent cities so BJ and JB's illegals can live among the other democrat voters.
Who's paying the taxes for all the remains in the river and lake Mich? Much less the sanitary canal. New boat, canoe, paddleboard tax coming.
I may be dead but can I still vote... multiple times
true and as we all know you can't fix stupid lt's forever teeeee heeeeee
Wonder how this will work since some of the cemeteries are owned by the Chicago Archdiocese..you know, the church that doesn't get taxed.
Just imagine how many no work, high pay patronage jobs this could generate!
But we've gotten along fine for hundreds of years without these "cemetery districts" . . . .
And how many cemeterys are around MT Greenwood? 5 or 6? Great spot to rip us off
richie daley is now saying to himself he could have leased the cemeteries out for at least a billion dollars
They should start taxing people who park their vehicles in front of their homes. The streets were not meant to be your own personal parking garage. If you want to use them for that then you should pay.
One word.......Cremation
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
When you think you've heard it all.....
What better business to have in Chicago than a funeral home? Endless clientele.
No one actually votes demorat.
They cheat and make up votes until they're satisfied.
There maybe a couple of retarded asswipes voting for them but the rest are made up.
People used to walk through them regularly like parks and have picnics paying their respects.
As the cemeteries exist now, they come up with additional maintenance fees for owning plots. Problem is: burial is unaffordable and people are sticking ashes on mantles or scarreting them in lakes, parks, Disneyland and world.
didn't we fight a revolution because of oppressive taxation.
More taxes on gas with the raised prices pisses me off. Every chance they get to raise prices is just a money grab. We’ll never run out of gas or oil. We should be using resources here in the United States in the first place. Rant off.
There have got to be hundreds of "cemetery associations" - some of which have been gone for over a century. "Brothers Of Free Transylvania" inscription almost weather-eroded entirely from the gateposts.
Now they will serve as phantom excuses to consolidate into TAXING BODIES to support more "community centers" for midnight basketball...
I am really pissed at all my relatives voting DEMOCRAT in every election. I know they will declare DEMOCRAT in the upcoming primary. Years ago they weren’t like that, they were always REPUBLICIANS. It wasn’t until the 80s & 90s when they starting dying that they starting voting DEMOCRAT. What the hell is wrong with them. And to add insult to injury I will get taxed on their remains. I told them to get cremated and I could have put them on the shelf in the basement next to the dogs & cats!
So, a new taxing district which means a new board of directors which means members have to be appointed or elected which means pay and benefits which might mean a pension. That certainly will eat up any tax money raised. No wonder Illinois has the highest property taxes in the country.
So, I have a prepaid plot for perpetual care after I'm gone. Thanks Grandma! So will my property be exempt from this tax??
And.....how about a cemetery district police! Hell, they have them guarding shit water and trees, and if you have happened to go into one of the formerly known as catholic cemeteries lately they need all the police they can get, the air is thick with weed smoke and modelo
"And.....how about a cemetery district police! Hell, they have them guarding shit water and trees, and if you have happened to go into one of the formerly known as catholic cemeteries lately they need all the police they can get, the air is thick with weed smoke and modelo"
3/12/2026 05:52:56 PM
...and all of the "Investment In Eternity" cast solid bronze mausoleum doors gone and replaced with chipboard...
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