Budget Woes
That unpaid balance owed to the City in fines and fees keeps getting larger:
Chicago residents, businesses, and city employees altogether owe the city more than $8.1 billion in overdue debt, some of it dating back to the 1990s, according to a report from the city's inspector general.
Inspector General Deborah Witzburg's report notes the bigger problem is that amount is most likely even larger, but the city can't properly account for all of the money it is owed.
The report revealed antiquated systems and policies dating back decades that prevent the city's Department of Finance from tracking and collecting all of the money owed.
As we said a short time ago, Officers are regularly the subject of internal investigations when their name appears on any debt record, starting with a SPAR, upgraded to a CR, culminating with wage garnishment and suspension should it not be paid.
Why this isn't a regular thing with other city departments, we don't know.
Why it isn't rigorously enforced on assorted companies, contractors or other government entities is a mystery as they're ripping off not just Chicago, but all Chicagoans who end up paying higher taxes to cover the constant shortfalls - $8 billion and counting.
Start cutting off services. Then go to Springfield and change the State Law about how much you can garnish. Make it painful to not pay bills. Illinois is a one-party state constantly abusing its power....why not now?
Labels: money questions, sarcasm AND silliness
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
28 Comments:
"Why it isn't rigorously enforced on assorted companies, contractors or other government entities is a mystery..."
Could it be that they're connected? It IS Chicago, after all.
City is squeezing everyone dry. People can’t afford to live here. The city leadership killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. Good times are gone. Now the slow demise is happening.
and how about not be able to file any form to run for a political office (eg Mayor), be appointed or hired to any city office, contract with the city or hold a position with any public employee union (Stacey Davis-Gates) unless the balance owed is paid IN FULL
Certain people don't have to pay and why should they.
I just retired and I didn't renew my city sticker, does that make me bad?
start with the mayor and alder-creatures that don't pay their water bills
And yet, if a regular non-connected taxpayer misses one fee or payment, the sheriff comes a knockin'!
And we wonder why Chicago is heading towards bankruptcy.
Pony up Losers.
Calc interest on it. Just that could help top up your pension.
Brandumb Johnson got away with not paying water bills.
Is it because that most of those businesses were contributing to democratic politicians' coffers? I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Ed Burke was receiving an envelope full of cash while relieving some of the pressure to collect on some unpaid debts.
Can you garnish welfare benefits?
Wonder how much one of those outside collection agencies could recoup?
The City does NOT care because the Democrats are getting kickbacks of boatloads of money and "pay to play schemes"!
The reason Chicago Police Officers get hit with Spars, Cr's for not paying city bills goes back to the anti-police Democrat attitude and to mess with cops any chance they get for any reason, but not their Democrat friends that stand outside polling places at election time handing out Democrat flyers!
half the cars in my neighborhood never had a city sticker
Police are consistently the whipping boys/political pawns of ANY city.
Every other city agency should be held to the same standard as the police are.
They sold the meters because the meter maids were not writing tickets. Now they privatize it and its a cash cow, not only for the company but also for the Daleys.
This is a managed decline by the leftists, people shouldn’t attribute it to ineptness or stupidity. If you look at the leftists in government, locally all the way up to federally, it is a feature of how they operate, not a bug. I think citizens are becoming aware of their plan, that is the reason demonrats want illeg@ls to flood the country, to enable them to steal elections, otherwise they would never win in a fair election.
Nope..I didn't either as I retired..never again to pay for one..fuck this city.
Turn it over collections at the power company.
what's the demographic breakdown of the debtors? because there's a whole class of individuals who believe that paying for utilities and other things is racist...
so now you have batches of these morons who refuse to pay their water bills, parking tickets, etc and then claim there's some kind of alleged disproportionate impact and it's due to systemic racism or other such nonsense...
still I have to wonder if the city hasn't gotten 8 billion dollars in amounts that are due to it and it's still operating how much did it really need that money?
maybe if they just stopped overcharging for everything instead of to a reasonable amount people would just pay the damn bill instead of trying to avoid it, but I don't know democrats? so it'll never happen...
Years ago, old Laski got in hot water for releasing a scofflaw list containing all sorts of city employees who owed money on parking tickets. Police, Fire, ward workers, and a couple on the mayor’s staff. Is there such a list currently available?
Take away all of it.
Yep and the add in charges lists are insane.
I park in a garage full of city dwellers who've never purchased a city sticker. Enjoy retirement and fck the city.
Isn’t the water bill simply a “suggestion” in the cumunity?
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“I used to be a Budget Woe too, but then I had to start raising my prices”
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