Your tax refund is probably bigger, but is that really helping us?

Okay so, everyone's talking about how their tax refund is probably gonna be bigger this year, right? And like, it sounds good on paper, especially with all the talk about Iran and whatever messing with the economy. But nah nah nah, let me explain why that's not really helping *us* out here in Shih-CAW-go. You get a few extra hundred bucks, maybe a thousand. What's that gonna do for the family in Englewood still trying to get fresh groceries because there's no decent store for miles? Or the folks on the West Side with schools closing down and no jobs? It's like putting a band-aid on a bullet wound, mija.

That little bump in your refund? It’s not fixing the broken L lines, the ones that don't even *go* to the neighborhoods that need 'em most. It's not stopping landlords from jacking up rent in places like Logan Square, pushing out the very people who made it cool in the first place. My tía, she works two jobs, cleaning offices downtown, and a bigger tax refund isn't gonna make a dent in her property taxes or the cost of gas to get from Little Village to the Loop every single day. We need systemic change, not a temporary cash infusion that barely covers a week's worth of Portillo's for the whole family – dipped, hot peppers, obviously.

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