He wants to raise them. I've tried to lower property taxes by doing the following. Funding our schools. Because the biggest part of your property tax bill is funding schools. Illinois was not providing enough money from the state to help fund schools. So that's why local governments and local school boards had to raise property taxes. Now we've gone from only 24% funding from the state level to 40% funding from the state level. (05:24–05:30)
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Asserts that Illinois previously did not provide sufficient state funding for schools.
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