Taxes will stay in place unless someone pushes to remove them. Those of you who have lived in Carbondale for 15 years or so will remember the mayoral term of Brad Cole whose particular hobby horse was Carbondale's property tax, which he felt was too high so he spent much of his first term successfully eliminating the city's share of the property tax, leaving the rest of the tax divided up among other taxing bodies such as the Park District, Library, School District, Mosquito Abatement, etc. The city's share was actually small enough that removing it did not make much difference in the size of the tax but made for a good campaign slogan.
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