First City to Pass Reparations Raises Property Taxes 9% | Frontpage Mag

‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’ means guaranteed maximum tax hikes. - Daniel Greenfield
In 2019, Evanston, Illinois, a Cook County city, announced it would provide $20 million in racial reparations to black people. 

The city has made $7 million in illegal racial payments, but is being sued for racial discrimination, and its financial problems are leading to a 9% property tax hike.
The whopping $5 million tax increase includes an 

1. 8.9% property tax hike, a 
2. 25% water rate increase, and a 
3. doubling the natural gas tax, 

which will help push local residents out of their homes, and ironically, the homeowners most likely to be pushed out as a result will be black.
The crushing hikes also include a variety of other Chicago taxes, including a 

• shopping bag tax, a 
• streaming tax, 
• a rideshare tax, and then perhaps, 

as the Beatles suggested, a foot tax...