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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Subject: Re: Casion--Vote (really chicago and $$)
- Message-ID: <930124948@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 13:07:53 GMT
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- Gene Rackow (rackow@skeeve.mcs.anl.gov) wrote:
- : >And Chicago pays more to the state than any other IL city. It also provides
- : >the plowing, repairs, etc. that keep the airports you like to fly in and
- : >out of open, the water supply that many suburbs drink from, not to mention
- : >the police protection for the suburbanites who like to go down to
- : >Water Tower, Division, and the other "tourists traps".
-
- : Beep..Wrong answer... For the burbs to get water from chicago, we have to pay
- : extra for it. We do not get it for free.
-
- Beep again. Right answer. Some suburbs (such as Skokie) get their water
- elsewhere (namely Evanston). The reason Chicago gets certain subsidies is
- for the large water supply they provide to themselves and other cities (at
- the cost you mentioned). The point was that certain aid that Chicago gets
- from the state indirectly benefits the burbs through services Chicago
- provides to them.
-
- : The burbs are forced to do a
- : balanced school budget on reduced amounts of money in part because chicago can't
- : seem to submit a balanced budget. Why is Ohare even IN Chicago? Look at
- : a map sometime and tell me why that little bit of gerrymandering went on. It's
- : not that Ohare is or would be a burden to the city coffers.
-
- O'Hare is in Chicago because Chicago annexed it. That's no secret. It's also
- no secret the federal government wanted them to do it.
-
- : Chicago also was able to help promote the idea that sports is a way out of
- : the getto by getting big donations from sports teams and shoe companies. The
- : smaller towns did NOT get a dime from foot locker. (yes doing things to
- : keep kids in school is a good idea, but looking at how much I am paying
- : to not only keep MY kids in school, but many in chicago as well hurts.
-
- It hurts me even more since I go to a private school. It hurt my parents
- even more since they paid from K-12 for their children and everyone elses.
- At least part of your tax dollar goes to your kids education. ANd the fact
- remains that more is spent per student in the burbs than in the city. So
- what are you bellyaching about?
-
- : I will not go to another foot locker. If they really wanted to help,
- : they could have made a state wide donation to help ALL schools with sports
- : programs. Our schools had to cut several sports because of lack of funds.
- : Did the Bulls/Bears/Cubs/foot-Locker care? Not a bit. It's the poor little
- : inner city kids that need a way to get out of the poor area of town.)
-
- I won't even touch that.
-
- : Chicago also has a much higher percentage of kids in private schools than
- : we have in many of the burbs or down-state towns. Why does it cost so much
- : more to run chicago schools on a PER-KID basis than it does anywhere else?
-
- see above. Where'd you get this percentage claim anyhow, pull it out of
- a hat? Show me where these statistics come from, and maybe I'd believe it.
- There are more public schools than private schools in the city. Private
- schools have been closing down in the city, and the public ones are
- overflowing. You've got some badly skewed data or something.
- : >
- : >Hey, I'm all for seperatism. Let Chicago not pay anything to the state
- : >in the form of taxes and the like, and we won't ask for any money from
- : >the state. Then let the suburbs get their own airports, TV stations,
- : >business centers, etc.
- : I would love to see how long chicago would last if it wasn't for the money
- : the state gives them.
-
- : Humor mode on..
- : Chicago pays money to the TV stations and stores so they stay in operation.
- : So many places would love to move into an area that pays them to do
- : business in their town. I have a money loosing business, lets go into
- : chicago where they will pay me to keep it in operation... I can use
- : the city money to show a profit then go buy a boat.. ;-)
- : Humor mode off.
-
- Whatever...
-
- : Every time I go into the city, I pay extra for that "priveldge". I pay
- : an additional 1+% in item taxes. I pay $$ to park or ride the train/bus.
- : If at the airport, I pay even more in taxes and fees, plus the add-ons
- : they have on ticket prices. Let's not forget how much I indirectly pay
- : to the city through the airline. They pay landing charges, gate fees, etc.
- : The only reason there are so many TV/radio station IN chicago it that
- : from there they are able to broadcast to the burbs and into Gary and it's
- : burbs. That way THEY have a bigger audience potential and can charge more
- : in advertising fees. Some of which have to be payed, guess where... To the
- : city. Putting a radio/tv tower in places like Joliet, Naperville, Aurora
- : allows them to broadcast over alot of corn fields as well as real listners.
- : Corn stalks are not good customers though they do have big ears.
-
- That's the biggest smoke screen I've seen yet. Chicago has so many TV and
- radio stations for 1) Most of those stations were around long before many
- of the suburbs were, 2) Chicago itself was a bigger market than a small
- patch of suburbs when those stations were started, 3) You can't just
- plop an antenna anywhere - the EPA would have a seizure. You think
- dangerous EMF comes off high voltage lines? Stand next to a 150,000 watt
- transmitter and you'll get an E-burn you'll never forget. Most of
- the transmitters are on the top of skyscrapers (which aren't in the
- burbs) for maximum propogation. The suburban stations mostly run
- on UHF (in case ya didn't notice) which doesn't need such a restricted
- run as VHF. In other words, the best location for an antenna at the
- time the stations were set up was in Chicago, and for the most part
- there weren't any suburbs to reach (except for like Aurora and a few
- others that were around before Chicago).
-
-
- : I don't think you under stand what I said. It's not that I think that a
- : city of 40,000 should get as much as chicago. I do think that we should get
- : a close approximation of what we send into the state. For every dollar
- : I pay in state taxes, only about 15 cents, if lucky, comes back to the city in
- : which I live. I then get raked over the coal by our local gov't for more.
- : I have to pay $100 for just basic school fees for middle school kids (each).
- : Then if they want to be in sports or other clubs, thats another $30 ($60 next
- : year) per sport/activity. My water and sewer bills tripled in the last 2 years.
-
- I'll find my violin. I pay the same tax rates as you do, and probably
- a lot higher property tax. As for dollars to the state, let's consider
- that again. Not only does the state make income off your wages, it makes
- it off sales tax, liquor taxes, cigarette taxes, gambling taxes, and
- let's not forget business. I'd say that in like a 25 mile radius around
- the city, over 1/2 the tax is generated by sales/business in the city.
- There is just more selling and business going on in the city than in
- the burbs, so there is more tax revenue. Now who has to provide the
- plowing and crap like I mentioned before so the stock broker can
- get to work downtown? Yep. The city. If Chicago could get the same
- percentage the burbs do from what they fork over to the state, the city
- would be a lot better off.
-
- : >
- : >Don't be silly.
- : I'm not being silly. Anyone who thinks that the city of chicago can
- : stand on it's own is another story.
-
- And the suburbs could? Hardly. I think they need each other, but I
- also think that this moaning that "Chicago gets too much" is unfair
- and unrealistic.
-
- But hey, this is easily settled. I'm sure they keep a record somewhere
- on geogrpahic revenue stuff. Like what area turns in what to the state.
- If you show me that and I'm wrong, I'll gladly apologize and shut my
- mouth. Fair?
-
- -Louis
-
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