Friday, September 23, 2011

Assessed and Stressed

Here's the lead from a Sun-Times story:
Cook County property tax bills are expected to go out the first week of October, and while Chicago and suburban landowners assume their property values have sunk, it may not translate to lower tax bills.
Expecting lower property taxes just because your property is worth less? How naive! In fact, the school board pushed an increase through.

Your house's value has failed to soar.
In fact, it is feeling depressed,
But somehow this means that you have to pay more!
Who, indeed, would have guessed?

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