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?