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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Chicago Tax Bills DOUBLED: $9K to $19K DESTROYS Black Neighborhoods
Description: Chicago homeowners are getting absolutely demolished by property tax bills that have literally DOUBLED overnight - we're talking $9,600 jumping to $19,100 for modest homes that aren't exactly the Taj Mahal. Meanwhile, Mayor Brandon Johnson spent hundreds of millions on illegal immigrants while commercial downtown properties got massive tax breaks because nobody wants to rent office space in a city overrun by street crime and work-from-home policies. Now guess who's picking up the tab? The same working-class families on Chicago's South and West sides that Johnson claims to champion. These aren't million-dollar properties - we're talking about generational family homes getting...