A 3 Bedroom and 1 Bath house in Cook County in Chicago has a property tax of $8,100 this year. So, property tax alone is like a monthly apartment leasing cost at $675. I know you can deduct $8,100 from the federal tax filing but that deduction isn't all that much. A person is still paying something like $500 a month on one's property tax. A home owner name, Patricia Taylor paid $6,100 in 2010. But this year, the her property tax went up by $2,000 in a time of poor housing sell climate since 2008.
This is on top of Chicago's sales tax that's at 9.75% on sales item and 2.25% on unprocessed food and other items that you don't get taxed in Texas. --- and they say, Texas and any governor who is from Texas sucks.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/chicago/property-tax-bills-anger-cook-county-homeowners-121933118.html?bouchon=602,il
http://www.forbes.com/2011/02/17/average-sales-tax-rate-record-high-shopping-arizona-25-highest-sales-taxes.html
