We got an idea from a comment regarding your property taxes and those in areas that receive more city services than us. We decided to pick at random various addresses in various police districts and the total taxes billed for that address in 2009.
Info provided in the following order
Address; 2009 Taxes; Police District; House/Apartment
219 w. 109th st; $372.15; 5th District; house
12015 s. wallace; $1710.08; 5th District; house
7506 s. emerald; $2743.10; 6th District; apartment
8006 s. damen; $1595.88; 6th District; house
8219 s. muskegon; $1737.52; 4th District; house
10812 s. calhoun; $686.55; 4th District; house
7211 s. winchester; $840.44; 7th Distict; house
5543 s. shields; $2065.68; 7th District; house
11223 s. church; $1852.94; 22nd District; house
2211's beat
10414 s. troy; $3022.67; 22nd District; house
10819 s. hamlin; $2706.00; 22nd District; house
10734 s. maplewood; $3506.86; 22nd District; house
11245 s. drake; $3347.87; 22nd District; house
All of this information is readily available online if you know where to look. Our thoughts on some of these numbers. 11223 S. Church St is located on the east end of the 22nd District. That street gets excess police service from the 22nd District and they pay roughly half of the property tax that we do.
An APARTMENT building in the 6th district at 7506 S. Emerald pays less money than 3 of the 4 properties we looked at for Beat 2211. Apartment buildings should be paying a premium as they are investment properties, but because they are in areas that suck everything good away, they get to pay less than a single family house in our neighborhood.
A house in the 5th district at 219 w. 109th st. pays less than $500.00 A YEAR for taxes. The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th districts have smaller beats and get extra help in the form of an outside unit called Tactical Response Unit regularly.
Let's throw more onto the tax fire. A progressive federal income tax. Earn more, pay more. A state income tax that some politicians want to raise. Penalties for working hard and being successful. Wheel tax (city sticker) for owning a car in the city. State Registration. Electric and natural gas consumption taxes. High sales tax. Entertainment tax. Phone taxes. Parking fees. What are we missing? These are all some of the ways the city, county and state rape us regularly for being successful/responsible members of our community. We also know of the roundabout ways of raising our 'taxes' that are not direct ways. Raise taxes on companies and force the companies to charge us more.
Now, say you earn nothing and are a dredge on society, get a Link card, get Section 8 housing vouchers, get free health care at any public health center or hospital, get taxes done for free by city, get job training for free, get a public defender when you are a fuck up, get to keep the cash earned from the drug trade and still get all of the free public welfare because you show no income, get SSI, get government subsidized cell phones, government subsidized daycare when you want other people to raise your children. Extra police protection. Extra fire protection. Where does it stop? Did we miss some? Please fill us in on some of the other stuff the dredge of society receive that we forgot or were unaware of.
After all of that money has burned a hole in our pocket, at the end of the day we are left out here to defend ourselves and have the assistance of 2211 when they can make it out this way and 2211a when they decide to man the car and not detail it to some other beat.
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Great thread! Not sure if a lot of people are aware but here, say you have granny who owns a home and has less than like 20K in yearly income. She can potentially keep her property taxes under 500$ per year but then she has the entire extended family living with her. All the cousins, grandchildren hanging out with no job, aggravating and disrespecting people who want to keep up their property. All while the poor asshole next door who worked all his life and has a decent retirement pays 4K.
This shit just cannot go on, there are too many people sucking the system dry.
The center cannot hold. I think that's becoming obvious.
And how many of these homes and buildings are owned by city government employees who just happen to know all the great real estate deals ahead of time?
Hello Jackie Heard. Hello Luis and your daughter.
I can't tell you how grateful I am that my taxes help them and their high rolling lifestyles.
The rich get richer I guess.
Now, say you earn nothing and are a dredge on society, get a Link card, get Section 8 housing vouchers, get free health care at any public health center or hospital, get taxes done for free by city, get job training for free, get a public defender when you are a fuck up, get to keep the cash earned from the drug trade and still get all of the free public welfare because you show no income, get SSI, get government subsidized cell phones, government subsidized daycare when you want other people to raise your children. Extra police protection. Extra fire protection. Where does it stop? Did we miss some? Please fill us in on some of the other stuff the dredge of society receive that we forgot or were unaware of.
Man, there it is right there. And I'm sure you missed a few because if it's one thing these lazy bastards know how to do it is fuck the system. And they think they got it coming to them. Do you know how many people I deal with that are on SSI for fucking ASTHMA? And they are smoking blunts from the time they get up in the morning to the time they go to sleep. If me or my kids tried to get SSI, they would tell us it's a manageable disease.
They need to start drug testing these motherfuckers. You drop dirty, your check is gone.
Well said! Outstanding.
-107/Homan Copper
Can a lawsuit be filed against Cook County Asses.office for this? Can we as a neighborhood file suit? A group is stronger than individuals.
Let's see the Beverly Review print this!
Someone in Indiana filed suit because his taxes in St. John were so high compared to Hammond, Whiting etc. Hammond and Whiting's taxes went sky high.
What is the criteria to base a homes value according to Cook County? Why are homes in predominately white neighborhoods worth more? Shouldn't all persons of Chicago pay the same amount based on size and condition? If a store in the hood was selling groceries for 10x's more than in a predom. white area there would be protests etc. Why is no one speaking up on our behalf? Why aren't we?
Don't you think homes in the hood should pay their fair share? Really, who decides our homes are worth more than other neighborhoods? Size, condition,ethnic orientation, .....? What is the criteria? Are they making me pay more because I live in a predominantly white neighborhood? Rights violation? Can you imagine if stores in the hood charged more money for groceries, cigarettes etc than a predominately white neighborhood? Where are our representatives ranting about this outrage?
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