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Alderman Shiller Comments on 2008 City Budget
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More than a quarter of a billion dollars.
That’s the chunk of change Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is proposing to harvest from taxpayers and service users.
The budget laid out yesterday includes the largest property tax increase of Daley’s tenure, plus steeper fees for everything from city water to bottled water to bottled beer.
It’s bound to draw heat from aldermen, and some on the city council have already blasted the tax hikes.
But Daley says the city’s balance sheet is tipping toward deficits, and that he has no choice but to ask taxpayers to step up.
We’ll be joined today by two aldermen to discuss the budget and its prospects in the city council.
The first is Helen Shiller of the 46th Ward.
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