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Another thing Daley keeps pushing for is an income-tax/property tax swap. He wants an income tax increase for a property tax decrease.

Sounds fine right?

But property taxes go to counties/municipalities/schools. Income taxes go to the state. This would give the state more income and counties/municipalities/schools less. The state would then have more of an ability to decide which counties/municipalities/schools get funding.

Guess who always wins when the state hands out money? You get a gold star if you said "Chicago".

Guess who loses? Anywhere but Chicago. And the further you get from Chicago, the more you lose.

My wife taught in rural Mattoon, IL for one year. The conditions were despicable. IIRC, Chicago spends something like $2,000 a student per year. (And most of the funding came from tax-redistribution from the state.) Mattoon spent something like $500 a student (the area is mostly robbed by the state). Funny thing is, for all the money they spend, Chicago still has lower graduations rates than Mattoon (and they weren't all that great in Mattoon). Chicago has a lot of clout when complaining. You hear all about "poor, inner-city schools". You never hear about "poor-rural schools that are poor because all of their tax dollars are being sent to the inner-city".