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How were everyday people screwed? Everyday people do not itemize in the first place! And they do not own $1.5 million homes that they pay $20k in property tax for.
I call bs. The vast majority of people should see their taxes decrease. If your taxes increased, maybe you should vote to reduce your local state tax.
Lower middle class myself and my return was a little bit better. Is it worth skyrocketing deficits and runaway climate change for future generations? Heck no, I’m not a sell-out.
This is a seat that has been Blue for a long time. And it gives Trump an historic majority in the US Senate for this point in his tenure. Doesn't like like there's any seething at all except maybe by the always outraged leftist.
Ignoring what happened to the AZ seat and the house?
I don't believe that IL used to be as high of property taxation as it is there now. Almost all of my family lives there and we were talking about property taxes recently and I was stunned at how high they were.
Now sure, Chicago & burbs is one thing but my family lives out in the rural parts of the state and even those are like 3% of house value or more. When I left the state mine were more like 2% of home value.
I think that with the states dire financial situation (they're the only state with a bond rating that is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than the other 49) that the state has been pulling money back from the county and city etc. levels and so to keep the lights on and the sewers flowing....the local property taxes have had to increase.
Now, all things in reasonable comparison...some states still have higher property taxes like Texas (no income tax though) and WI has really high property taxes.
IL is 2.32% (2018). Texas is 1.86%. Wisconsin is 1.95%. Not a big difference.
This is a seat that has been Blue for a long time. And it gives Trump an historic majority in the US Senate for this point in his tenure. Doesn't like like there's any seething at all except maybe by the always outraged leftist.
It seems you do not know the different between a state senate chamber and the US Senate.
The Republicans flipped a state senate seat in Minnesota:
This story is a crock. People are benefitting from the Trump tax cuts unless they are getting soaked by their blue-state government.
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