First City to Pass Reparations Raises Property Taxes 9% ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’ means

First City to Pass Reparations Raises Property Taxes 9%
‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’ means guaranteed maximum tax hikes.


Real Estate Taxes
In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, a Cook County city, announced it would provide $20 million in racial reparations to black people. The city has made $7 million in illegal racial payments, but is being sued for racial discrimination, and its financial problems are leading to a 9% property tax hike.

The whopping $5 million tax increase includes an 8.9% property tax hike, a 25% water rate increase, and a doubling the natural gas tax, which will help push local residents out of their homes, and ironically, the homeowners most likely to be pushed out as a result will be black.

The crushing hikes also include a variety of other Chicago taxes, including a shopping bag tax, a streaming tax, a rideshare tax, and then perhaps, as the Beatles suggested, a foot tax.

Mayor Daniel Biss, the city’s ultra-woke leader and perennial candidate, currently the Democrat nominee for the Illinois 9th congressional district, with an academic history of retracted papers and a relationship with an undergrad behind him, argued in favor of the illegal racial reparations that “it’s something that we’re enormously proud of. I think it’s an important step, one might argue a partial step or an inadequate step, but still a really important step, toward both, on a factual level, reckoning with our past.”

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