That works out to a rate of 1.9%, which is on the low side but reasonable. I pay about 2.6% on my condo. But then (as I understand it) half of Emanuel’s land is undeveloped, which would tend to lower the overall rate.

“This post removed due to Cook County Government Intimidation”

Of course.

jbonham76 said,

November 7, 2008 at 3:07

Just because Emanuel has paid property taxes on this house does not prove that he has never evaded paying property taxes on other properties that he may have, or that he won’t do so at some point in the future.
Which only strengthens the gist of my initial post.

You have to give credit, that response is a thing of beauty.

RedState, taking the stupid to previously unknown realms by one idiot at a time. Stay the Course.

Here’s to hoping RedState uses this guy’s brilliant logic in their current Operation Leper stratergeric action. Put every wingnut’s name on their enemies list because at “some point in the future” they might say something not flattering about the diva Sarah. Do the surge, jbonham76!

I swear, Onion writers should apprentice with these guys.

well, jesus I would hope so. I mean, I know I’m a socialistislamofacist, but fuck.

Let me make one further point: Before posting this “story,” neither you nor anybody from the Illinois Review made an effort to contact the Assessor’s office to verify it. As a former newspaper reporter, I find this shocking.

Something tells me this guy has been out of the reportin’ business for quite a while.

Good times, good times…

Since you only started questioning anyone in the federal government a mere sixty and a half hours ago, it is a bit early to start whinging about the failure of everyone to acknowledge your greatness.

You’d think that being called out with

Let me make one further point: Before posting this “story,” neither you nor anybody from the Illinois Review made an effort to contact the Assessor’s office to verify it. As a former newspaper reporter, I find this shocking.

Even after learning, when I emailed you at 10:46 this morning, that there were factual problems with the story, you kept it on your web site. Moreover, you deleted my effort to correct the story from the “comments” section. I’d be keenly interested in hearing your justification for this conduct.

that you’d be shamed enough to apologize to your readers, to Rahm Emanuel, and to Cook County Assessors Office. At the very least, some sort of “sorry” to at least one of the three. Holy Hey-Zeus, even after finding out that they were wrong and that Rahm shelled out $12K in property taxes, they then went on to ask

Is the yearly property tax liability of a home valued at $695,000 in 1998 really only $13,022.60?

Well, I’m not the one obsessed with property tax rates on North Hermitage, but I just found out about someone who is:

Other North Hermitage homes on Emanuel’s block are valued in the $500,000 plus range. According to Cook County Treasurer’s website, the Chicago owners of nearby 118 year old 4222 North Hermitage pay almost $6800 annually. The family at 4224 North Heritage pays $6000 each year in property taxes.

Nice going dickwad, you pre-butted your own “sinister question”. You know, this type of reasoning reminds me of Mickey Kaus. I guess it would only be responsible to speculate as to IR Editor (I’m guessing Fran Eaton) and her perverse desires to sexually violate goats. Afterall,

Where there is smoke, there is usually fire. Especially when it comes to Chicago politics.

RiM = LOSER + WELCHER + LIAR

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/11/wholly-innaccur.html

FIRST, when we looked up the wrong address for Rahm’s house and said it doesn’t appear on the tax rolls, we were right, because it was the wrong address.

SECOND, when we said that Rahm lists his correct address at the Board of Elections and not the wrong address we keep looking at, we were right that his correct address is not our wrong address.

THIRD, we were right that there’s no record of Rahm paying his taxes for an address that his house isn’t at, because he paid his taxes for the address his house actually is at.

FOURTH, we baselessly speculated that Rahm’s charitable foundation might be the reason he didn’t pay taxes at his house, which was correct because we didn’t state it as a fact, only as baseless innuendo, and other than the facts that he did pay his taxes, and the charitable foundation didn’t affect them, and we had the wrong address for his house anyway, it’s all the fault of the Liberals who keep catching us making shit up.