Tag: units of government

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Never enough of your money

By:  Diane Benjamin McLean County Board Chairman Matt Sorenson appeared on WGLT yesterday.  Either Bloomington passes 1/4 Sales Tax increase for mental health or the County will raise property taxes.  http://wglt.org/wireready/news/2015/08/01262_sorenson_SI_MH_spot_web_180041.shtml Instead of jumping at raising taxes, how about cutting administrators Matt? Below is a list of every Taxing Body on the State Comptrollers website […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Gov Units: Too many!

By:  Diane Benjamin One target for reform championed by Gov Rauner is decreasing the units of government in Illinois.  See this report by the Illinois Policy Institute:  https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/too-much-government-illinois-thousands-of-local-governments/.  Illinois has too many units and they cost taxpayers way more than necessary. On the Illinois Comptroller’s website is a tab labelled The Local Government Warehouse:  http://www.ioc.state.il.us/  […]