Title: ‘We are in peril’: How skyrocketing property taxes are threatening the future of one Chicago neighbo Source:
[None] URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-bmPskZNAg Published:Feb 7, 2023 Author:Horse Post Date:2023-02-07 20:41:32 by Horse Keywords:None Views:882 Comments:19
Poster Comment:
The problem is spending excesses. The insanity ends when voters get a brain.
Ok, that was very much an oversimplification. Employers do, generally, pay taxes.
But they also seek to shirk responsibility, thus the clamor for subsidised.......everything for the poor. Especially the "working poor", which is a term designed to tug at out heartstrings. Just pay them a living wage, you greedy f***ers! :)
When I was a young man working at the florist shop in Chicago in mid 70s, we were being paid $5.50/hr for doing deliveries and setting up for parties and Jewish weddings.
One time we went to the Ambassador West Hotel for a midnight pick up.
When we got there the band was still playing and people were dancing.
The guy that was with me started taking flowers off the tables.
I told him, "You can't do that when they are still dancing."
He said, "I'm going out for a beer." He never came back. I had to get all that stuff out by myself.
I was sitting in a bar room a few years later and who walks in? You guessed it, the guy that took off on me at that wedding. He had a cane. I asked him, "What happened to you?"
Hw replied, "M.S."
He might very well be dead by now.
That is a very old memory I am lucky to recall because of the meningitis. ;)