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Attn: Chenoa
Do you know this will appear on your ballot in April? Shall the City of Chenoa impose a Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers’ Occupation Tax and Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax (Commonly...
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More expensive to live in Bl-Normal than close cities
by: Diane Benjamin MANY government agencies in Bloominton-Normal want to raise your taxes. There is talk about raising Sales Taxes, Utility Taxes, and Gas Taxes. Some people have compared the...
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Don’t forget who raised your taxes!
by: Diane Benjamin Tari Renner BELIEVES he can raise your taxes anytime he wants. He just doesn’t want you to remember he did. Sorry Tari, just because the Pantagraph and WJBC won’t remember or...
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B/N: Higher Taxes Coming!
By: Diane Benjamin So far the residents of Normal haven’t cared that Koos is stealing more money from them every year to so he can finish his vision. Will you care this time? These 2 emails were...
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REAL Facts Matter Tari
By: Diane Benjamin Instead of enjoying Christmas with family and friends, Mayor Renner has been busy re-writing history through emails. Here is his latest edition: My comments are in red From: Tari...
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Econ: The lesson continues
By: Diane Benjamin See this post from earlier today: http://blnnews.com/2015/06/16/its-simple-econ-tari/ In just NEW taxes, Tari took $3,680,714 away from taxpayers. What that number doesn’t reflect...
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Make them look you in the eye!
Note: Share this post with your friends. The media isn’t going to tell them the truth! By: Diane Benjamin Poor Mayor Koos. Normal can’t steal more money from you unless Bloomington votes to steal...
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Big crowd, but SHEEP LOSE
By: Diane Benjamin Congrats to the citizens of Bloomington who showed up at last night’s Council meeting. I hear the room was packed – all the way back to the windows. I occasionally heard some soft...
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Tari: 5 Pinocchios
By: Diane Benjamin Tari talking points: The big picture on the budget is that: 1) we are not doing anything that the city didn’t do three, four or five years ago 2) our revenues were flat and our...
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More Pinocchios Tari
By: Diane Benjamin Watch this short campaign video Tari made in 2013 while running for office. Very close to the end he claims infrastructure can be improved without raising taxes. Funny how he...
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How do we get a real newspaper?
By: Diane Benjamin Today’s story: Chamber of Commerce declares “There Are Jobs Out There”. Sure. Fast food, retail, and jobs with 10 years experience required doing things nobody has every heard of....
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County: $50,000,000+ in reserves
By: Diane Benjamin Remember when I wrote about the County Board raising your property taxes? http://blnnews.com/2016/03/10/zero-transparency-mclean-county/ Before the vote another vote was taken that...
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In Honor of Tari’s re-election bid:
By: Diane Benjamin The Total Budget Tari inherited in 2013: $167 million http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=21&parent=7074 Tari’s first budget – 2014: $169.4 million...
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Tax recap – by request
By: Diane Benjamin A reader asked me yesterday to list all the taxes Bloomington charges, so I will. http://www.cityblm.org/index.aspx?page=142 The current total local sales tax rate in Bloomington,...
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Taxes pre-Tari and now
By: Diane Benjamin Earlier this week I recapped all the taxes you probably didn’t know about: https://blnnews.com/2016/05/31/taxes-you-probably-didnt-know-about/ I’m taking the same list and adding...
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Trouble in Bloomington
By: Diane Benjamin I found this story today about personal income from 2014. http://www.lanereport.com/65176/2016/07/real-personal-income-rose-by-an-average-of-2-9-in-2014/ Personal income in...
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Renner’s downtown
By: Diane Benjamin Renner isn’t responding to the market, he’s trying to create one. Just like he claims bike paths and buses are the future, he continues to claim Bloomington’s future is downtown....
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Matt Sorensen: He knew
By: Diane Benjamin Last November a vote by the County Board resulted in a property tax increase when a vote to dip into LARGE reserves was defeated. Matt Sorensen voted NO to break a tie:...
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Who voted for Tari’s nonsense?
By: Diane Benjamin Note: I could keep posting links – but I’m severely bored. Besides, it’s obvious from the ones I have linked who votes to fleece taxpayers! Note #2: One name is missing from...
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Bloomington: Ready to tax you more
By: Diane Benjamin Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night: http://www.cityblm.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=11625 The minutes from the last Committee of the Whole meeting are on the...
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