Government especially sucks here in IL. They are the root of all our problems. Democracy is dangerous. We live in a constitutional republic where you cannot tale our rights away because the constitution limits government power. Politicians recklessly spend our money aka taxes. I'm tired of working 55hrs a week to have 30% taken from me. State tax, sales tax, gas tax, food tax etc. After it is all said and done that 30% is much higher.
I'm mixed. My suburban village is pretty small and is unable to provide many services that the township provides. Also there are unincorporated areas in my township and I'm unable to believe that Waukegan would provide these very local services. The county does a poor job distributing resources throughout the county. OTOH the property taxes are crazy high and combined with the increasing fees and income taxes, which are only going to get worse so eliminating might save me a few hundred dollars a year. The only solution is to leave Illinois, which we plan to do in the next 5 years.
@@henryc1000 snowplowing, parks, roadway/bridge maintenance, etc. In a township which is completely incorporated it serves no purpose, but that isn't the case with mine. In order of governmental trustworthiness: village, township, county, state, federal. Basically the farther away I am from it the less I trust it, although with Springfield and DC the trust is zero so they would be equal.
There are 9 Townships in DuPage Addison, Bloomingdale, York, Milton, Downers Grove and Lisle all have such small unincorporated areas that one administration could handle all 6. But again the voters probably won't go along with it.
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Government especially sucks here in IL. They are the root of all our problems. Democracy is dangerous. We live in a constitutional republic where you cannot tale our rights away because the constitution limits government power. Politicians recklessly spend our money aka taxes. I'm tired of working 55hrs a week to have 30% taken from me. State tax, sales tax, gas tax, food tax etc. After it is all said and done that 30% is much higher.
These areas with multiple govt juristictions need to access all their operations and see where common services can be consolidated to reduce costs.
Illinois can be considered to be China of the Midwest.
I'm mixed. My suburban village is pretty small and is unable to provide many services that the township provides. Also there are unincorporated areas in my township and I'm unable to believe that Waukegan would provide these very local services. The county does a poor job distributing resources throughout the county.
OTOH the property taxes are crazy high and combined with the increasing fees and income taxes, which are only going to get worse so eliminating might save me a few hundred dollars a year.
The only solution is to leave Illinois, which we plan to do in the next 5 years.
Pray tell, what would these services be that you couldn’t do for yourself?
@@henryc1000 snowplowing, parks, roadway/bridge maintenance, etc. In a township which is completely incorporated it serves no purpose, but that isn't the case with mine.
In order of governmental trustworthiness: village, township, county, state, federal. Basically the farther away I am from it the less I trust it, although with Springfield and DC the trust is zero so they would be equal.
There are 9 Townships in DuPage Addison, Bloomingdale, York, Milton, Downers Grove and Lisle all have such small unincorporated areas that one administration could handle all 6. But again the voters probably won't go along with it.