Residential Single Family Homeowners Pay for Downtown High-rise Owners

February 10, 2010 by CookReformer
Filed under: Corruption

With all of us still in shock over our 1st installment real estate tax bills — billed now at 55% of last year total — downtown real estate interests benefit from assessment reductions, while owners of single family homes pay a grossly disproportionately higher share.

For those who don’t have Ald. Ed Burke, Speaker Mike Madigan or Senate President John Cullerton as lawyers for our real estate tax assessment appeals, they have to pay a disproportionately high real estate tax, as is citizen of Cicero, Cook County and taxpayer David Jenkins does.

This is yet another example of an ordinary citizen paying through the nose for the Chicago Way Corruption Tax that no other city in the nation pays to the same extent.

See for yourself at www.speakermadigan.com.

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