"I don't have any choice -- you pay it or you have to move," said Leonard Gilbert, whose taxes on his Rogers Park home are jumping from $4,604 to $6,513 unless the protection bill passes. "I pay more in taxes now than on my mortgage."
Chicago Sun-Times
Front Page Story
November 28, 2006
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Paradise is correct - we definitely do not need new TIF districts. These abominations are nothing more than money laundering vehicles for campaign contributions to elected officials, paid for by ever higher and higher property taxes.
We document quite a bit of the TIF/Campaign Contribution/Property Tax nexus at What The Helen, the blog that exposes Helen Shiller and the rest of the alderbeasts' scams.
One thing we can disagree on is the need for more retail, particularly in our 'hood - Uptown. It's a disgrace and Helen Shiller should be ashamed of herself for letting her ward stagnate in this area for the past 20 years. You know, if there were actual businesses that paid decent wages, we wouldn't have 40% poverty in Uptown. But Helen Shiller likes it that way - keep people poor and pit them against the big, bad, middle class condo owners in an effort to divide and conquer.
Hell, even with a public subsidy laden TIF project, Helen Shiller can't get her POS Wilson Yard development built.
That's OK, though. Who really wants 200 units of low, very low, and extremely low income housing attached to a Target store that will pay below-poverty-level-wages anyway?
Certainly not the people in the 46th ward, and apparently not Target, either.
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