https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-jb-pritzker-property-tax-appeal-20190424-story.html
Basically, and I may have mentioned this last year during the Midterm threads, what happened is that Pritzker decided that he could save property tax money on a mansion that he and his family had in Chicago by removing all the toilets and having it reassessed as unsuitable for habitation. The Cook County Assessor's office has claimed that he ended up saving $330,000 on his tax bill because of this trick, and WBEZ, Chicago's NPR station, is saying that he's now being investigated by the Feds, though the Feds are of course neither confirming nor denying and the County is unaware of this.
This is becoming a bigger issue as Pritzker's been pushing to amend the State Constitution next year to allow a progressive income tax, which is currently not allowed.
So, what do you guys think of this possible bombshell....if this didn't happen every 20 minutes that is?
I'm not surprised, shocked, or even all that disgusted at the move itself, it's actually a brilliant money-saving move objectively speaking. But it does show the kind of people we have in control, and it does show why I make jokes about Soviet Illinois. Watch this space and the news as this develops, and it probably will develop in the coming weeks and months.