Bill Text: IL HR1072 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Stands in staunch opposition to any new state-wide property tax.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 38-5)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR1072 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR1072-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Illinois families currently face one of the | ||||||
3 | highest tax burdens in the nation; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Illinois consistently ranks among the states with | ||||||
5 | the highest property tax liabilities, with only New Jersey | ||||||
6 | having a higher average property tax bill; and
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7 | WHEREAS, An Illinois homeowner living in a home valued at | ||||||
8 | $184,000 (the median home value in the United States) pays | ||||||
9 | approximately $4,300; a homeowner living in Wisconsin, by | ||||||
10 | comparison, pays approximately $3,600; in Michigan, $3,200; in | ||||||
11 | Iowa, $2,800; in Missouri, $1,800; and in Indiana and Kentucky, | ||||||
12 | $1,600; and
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13 | WHEREAS, Illinois is losing population; families in | ||||||
14 | Illinois have been forced to live in a State where their | ||||||
15 | government appears to only continue finding ways of punishing | ||||||
16 | its residents with an ever-growing need for raising taxes, | ||||||
17 | without making an structural changes that seek to stabilize the | ||||||
18 | out-of-control spending; and
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19 | WHEREAS, A new proposal is recommending that there be a | ||||||
20 | state-wide property tax levied on homes, leading to an average | ||||||
21 | property tax bill increase of 40 percent; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Such a proposal would, yet again, continue on the | ||||||
2 | wrong trajectory without any guarantee that services will | ||||||
3 | improve, the State's crippling debt will be paid, or any | ||||||
4 | positive benefit will be realized; conversely, such a | ||||||
5 | state-wide property tax would only cause homeowners to strongly | ||||||
6 | consider leaving Illinois, as so many have already done in | ||||||
7 | recent years; Illinoisans deserve better than this; therefore, | ||||||
8 | be it
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9 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
10 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
11 | stand in staunch opposition to any new state-wide property tax; | ||||||
12 | and be it further
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13 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
14 | delivered to the Speaker of the House, the House Minority | ||||||
15 | Leader, the Senate President, the Senate Minority Leader, and | ||||||
16 | the Office of the Governor.
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