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Have to give props to the Sellsius blog.  They have done a wonderful job of capturing the tax assessment fiasco surrounding Governor Blagojevich’s home.

Here’s the story. Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s 3,817 square feet home (2nd largest in his neighborhood) only received a 1% tax assessment increase while his neighbors got bumped more than 36% (on average). It seems when asked for an explanation, the tax assessor said numbers are crunched based on square footage and that the Governor’s home was previously OVERVALUED and is now in line. So much for the argument that public data is accurate. This seemed to satify some but not the skeptics. It seems no matter how you crunch it, the Governor’s home is either undervalued (lower tax per square footage) or his neighbors are overvalued. 

Man I need to run for public office.