The toilet investigation of Pig Pritzker died once the Zombie Biden regime came to power in Washington. Illinois property taxes are the worst. In my little village I pay 2100 a year on my house and 6000 on my building. My Bride and I stayed in our starter home partially because of sentimental memories of our kids growing up, but also to avoid higher property taxes on a more expensive house. If I attempted to sell my building it would be for half of its assessed value because commercial property is dead in my village and throughout most of the State of Illinois. If I could I would long since have left this prairie dystopia.
An article on my home state of (tax a) Mass(-achusetts.) https://www.theamericanconservative.com/let-them-eat-woke/
I’m amused when politicians say the business success of blue MA can be duplicated. It can’t. What sustains the state are the technical Universities, entrepreneurship and yankee ingenuity combined with hard work.
Woke and crazy politicians are parasites.
So too on “gun control”. New Englanders were ALWAYS responsible gun owners living in a (relatively) low crime environment. The gun laws did not create that.
The high property taxes in Illinois are in large part due to the fact that Illinois has more total units of local government (more than 7,000) than ANY other state. While there are “only” 102 counties, (some states have more) there are myriads of townships, municipalities, school districts, and special purpose districts with taxing power that all adds up.
Illinois does have peculiarly fragmented municipal government. About 750 municipalities and 500 school districts should suffice for a state with Illinois’ population and distribution pattern. Special district authorities financed by property surtaxes or capitations belong proximate to the interface between the suburbs and the exurbs, where the menu of municipal services is tapering off. They also belong in country villages which require services characteristic of dense settlement but which are themselves too small to merit a separate municipal government. If you have metered services for water delivery and municipal electric, you should be able to get by with special authorities for sewerage and drainage, trash hauling, sidewalks, and street lighting.
Downstate Illinois counties tend to have low populations, so ideally law enforcement functions would be transferred to special multi-county authorities. Greater Chicago could be divvied up in to about 10 catchments, each with its own sheriff’s department, police department, and social welfare inspectorate. Municipal government is not an optimal locus for provision of police services.
I disagree that more local control is the problem. The problem is that too many believe the lie about taxation. The services that you gain from the government are almost always inferior and more expenses than those you would have obtained for yourself.
Unless of course they are services you would not have been able to buy yourself, which is a major temptation. Get the other guy to involuntarily pay for it.
Fewer services, smaller localized government, minimal handouts. Not a popular philosophy currently 🙁
I disagree that more local control is the problem.
You’re objecting to an argument no one made.
The problem is that too many believe the lie about taxation. The services that you gain from the government are almost always inferior and more expenses than those you would have obtained for yourself.
You’re confused. Public goods are those which are not spontaneously produced and vended on the open market.