By: Diane Benjamin
Last night’s Bloomington city Council meeting was uneventful until the Finance Director’s Report. Remember last November when property taxes were increased? How about last September when the 1% grocery tax was passed? The City finances were in DIRE shape! Multi-million dollar deficits were expected.
What’s the result of tax increases other than you are poorer?
Bloomington collected $9,331,492 more than they thought they would. Home Rule Sales Tax is almost $6 million more than anticipated!
FYI: Only Sheila Montney and Kent Lee voted against the property tax increase.
Will even a fraction of that wealth be returned to those forced to enrich the government coffers? Keep reading.
Finance report history: https://www.bloomingtonil.gov/departments/finance/previous-annual-budget-reports/-folder-145#docfold_2531_6612_1422_145
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Does your dog salivate at getting a treat? Do your kids dance with joy when the ice cream truck drives through the neighborhood?
Just hit Play to hear Cody Hendricks wondering how much of the surplus the Council can spend. He was speaking for more than just himself. They have needs, your needs are immaterial. Petition circulation for local office 2027 elections starts today: https://blnnews.com/2026/07/15/ready-for-2027-elections/
Isn’t Cody Hendricks a teacher his pay comes from taxes so does anyone really believe that he has any interest in controlling taxes? And yet so many people don’t go vote so you get someone whose pay is through taxes so honestly you don’t expect that person is going make an effort to reduce taxes. But they will sure know how to spend it!
Cody “DSA” Hendricks definitely has had plans for all the, “surprise my ass” those are planned “coffer filling”, tax rates for these socialist lefties. They have programs to fund, NGO’s to support, marketing campaigns, accepting over priced “no-bid” contracts, creating huge “social” feel good grants, or even creating policies that cause very “interesting” and profitable civil rights law suits against the city, county, or other jurisdiction. Which may just happen to benefit “family, friends, allies, or associates” with a very noticeable and significant difference in the simplicity, ease, and efficiency in which the “wronged” individual is treated, is easily able to gather and collect or even need “FOIA” data, rarely encounters any bureaucratic roadblocks.
Versus other persons that encounter similar issues, but have the exact opposite experience with almost all government agencies and departments when requesting assistance and or public services or public information.
Showing and outlining almost a level of collaborative effort that one begins to pattern recognize immediately the obvious signs of Placement, Layering, Integration, and Facilitation. All of these, plus others are common technical tools and features amongst illegal schemes involving various kinds of public and private sector laundering of funds.
They just don’t think anyone’s watching or listening and able to piece together the details.
He announced he’s running for reelection
In races I can vote in, last local election cycle iirc there were non-establishment/non-leftist candidates for 1/3 or less of the races. First McLean County becomes Chicago, then New York, then Venezuela. It’s easier to stop sooner than later.
Support Good Candidates. Recruit Good Candidates. BE Good Candidates!
Used to be you could get half your signatures for a spring election on the fall election day, but the state legislature noticed that made it too easy for the competition to get on the ballot, so they moved it earlier. Now your best big public event is probably the county fair, which starts tomorrow!
Other than putting in the time and finding/raising the money, it’s not as hard as most people think – happy to assist with the forms and legalities, I’ve done it 6 times now for various positions, including defending against petition challenges.
A democrat on the county board already announced he’s running for Normal – Duffy
Well I have to bring up my favorite tax issue which most people just blow off. You are now paying over %12 tax just to eat a meal in Bloomington. You have to eat to stay alive so why do I have to pay tax to eat and stay alive. Heck go to the grocery store you have a %1 tax added to buy food to eat and stay alive. I guess when you have to pay a $10 dollar tax for a $10 hamburger people will get excited but by the time it will obviously be too late.
Everyone needs to vote out all that support any kind of tax that I just mentioned.
I had a leftist tell me that this was a luxury tax welcome to the leftist world it’s considered a luxury to eat and stay alive.
Our forefathers started a war in part due to a tax on tea I guess some today would say that tea is a luxury. How sad to think that the only way to clean house and start anew is to do what our ancestors had to do.
People who complain about housing likely have no idea how much they waste not cooking