By: Diane Benjamin
Most local units of government will be on the April 1st ballot. Most of registered voters won’t both to vote. That makes theft easy.
How are they stealing your money? By taxing you on unrealized gains through property taxes. The value of your house has increased but you will never see that increased value unless you sell!
This is no different than taxing you on unrealized gains from stocks or your 401K. Both are just as likely to decrease as they are to increase. The same is true of the value of your property.
Local governments plans to steal their share before property values decrease. Years from now they will raise taxes again because then they won’t be able to conduct business without another windfall.
Heartland Community College is next: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2024-11-18/heartland-community-college-to-set-public-hearing-for-new-tax-levy?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
December 17th is a public hearing that few if anyone will attend. Don’t buy the small amount the increase will produce. That will be added to the amount your taxes already increased because your assessed value increased.
Now add all the other increases you will see on your 2025 property tax bill.
The left must want people to leave Illinois. Someday the tax base won’t be able to support the Illinois leviathan.
The Heartland Community College will suffer the consequences. Actually taxpayers are the real victims.
One can never get straight answers on this the local assessment system they implemented for the average property owner/taxpayer. But they will take your property and bankrupt you if you don’t pay in a certain amount of time (claiming legally valid plus publicly communicate/ shame those property owners and say the property owner “just needs training” or does not understand the system). I
Its a scam and these elected dept heads are part of the issue (who by the way get a pension for life and raises and benefits). Blaming higher real estate values/escalation for those who do not plan to sell and realize the “gain”. Public can’t be funding this deficit spending and could not for years. These people “investors” have no connection to communities. They can pass the costs to consumer/renter or property owners. There is an underlying problem for sure and for paper profit and states, schools, admins and counties/budgeting scam becomes clearer and clearer. Forecasting and Human Capital Management systems are a scam too. The tax code is being misused/implemented wrong. Central Illinois is clearly following the leader of Cook County. (some surged 100%) and consumers have no recourse and most can’t afford lawyers. The dispute/appeal board process/workflow is BAD for sure and just cause its “legal” does not mean its right or called “fair”.
Here are a few resources:
*Illinois Property Tax doc (an interesting read)
https://tax.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/tax/research/publications/documents/localgovernment/ptax-60.pdf
*Historical Property tax freeze info: Illinois (How is this applying to rural McLean County homes the majority of which are pre 1900’s built- taxes raised yearly.)
https://dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/preserve/taxfreeze.html https://dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dnrhistoric/preserve/documents/summary-taxfreeze.pdf
*Contacts: (note many rural McLean County communities not on the list)
https://dnrhistoric.illinois.gov/content/dam/soi/en/web/dnrhistoric/preserve/siteassets/pages/community/clg-list.pdf
A good listen on perspective of “assessment” process/system and unrealized gains (basically stop relying on your government/political class and county and state dept leaders). The LGIS/GIS system was implemented wrong/poorly as well as new assessment system state wide.
The system has misconstrued the “fair” (thus taxing US on value that is not REAL or attained) as part of assessment district/area laws its clear by creating an invalid baseline, increasing assessments for many county residents and has data that lacks clarity and integrity. Taxing unrealized gains is a huge problem and other states/counties are being very vocal about it (Texas is a good example). Unfortunately, our taxing bodies like the free money and budget allowances and their families all get jobs easily in the area as they all are in the same “clubs” and unions- all types and public/private partnerships with big orgs/colleges calling it training, workforce dev/innovation. Over the years I’ve been taxes taken in an enormous way and these same people giving each other jobs/ raises, huge pensions for life, project contracts/nepotistic in nature while normal working class and students get exploited by these same people “in charge” and in “education”. Its funny all the “county board” and Republicans and Dems in leadership think this “unrealized” gain money funnel helps everyone (money grabs) when if you look up McLean County. The assessors in localities, county and state are clueless clearly and can never give exact data, comparable, calculations, data store/share info.
Elites, rich and homestead exemption property owners don’t see or care…its working class worker bees who DON”T use “websites and lengthy protest forms” and process probably cause they are too busy paying their bills and working and HIGH mandated insurance costs and other expenses.
PEOPLE in charge are puppets pushing digital deception, SAP process, systems/process at your dollar. (your paying to have your kid, data and student and tax dollars exploited).
I’ve disputed this enough to see where the assessment worklow, process and data lack and are abusing citizens in McLean County. Blame local, county and state public/private partnerships and “public service/servants” in unions and fake leadership money funnel for all of this.
There is a reason many of those with the large pensions bestowed by their friends on the councils/boards leave the state after retiring. They don’t want to have to pay for the bloated bureaucracy they built. Until more people recognize that the bureaucracy won’t leave because they can’t do better than their generous government pay and benefits, this system will continue. Most public employees recognize this. Let’s face it, unless they’re going to another government entity for more pay/better benefits, they aren’t likely to go private until they retire between 50-55.
Close to 25% of the state budget goes to pensions. That’s not sustainable
Next up for tax increases AIRPORT AUTHORITY