CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposed property tax increase is just the start. County and state tax and fee increase are also in the works.Following the Chicago City Council meeting, the mayor continued to sell his half billion dollar property tax increase. He repeated a claim that it would exempt homeowners with houses appraised under $250,000."We actually make sure that seniors and our most vulnerable middle class, struggling families are held neutral, harmless," Emanuel said.But the exemption would have to be approved by state lawmakers and signed into law by Ill. Governor Bruce Rauner, who opposes the mayor's plan."He has not instituted major structural reform so I am opposed to and not supportive of any of his tax increase effort," Gov. Rauner said."If Rauner is not going to give us the exemption, then the city council has to act to protect working people," Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, 35th Ward, said.Ramirez-Rosa wants a rebate program, which is not endorsed by the mayor, to return the tax increase to senior and low-income homeowners. They also would have to pay the mayor's proposed garbage pickup fee."Which will be almost as high if not higher in some cases than the property tax increase for those residents," Chicago Alderman Howard Brookins, 21st Ward, said.Meanwhile, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle's budget recommends new county taxes on amusements including cable television. That levy--affecting the city-- would be added to the recent Cook County sales tax hike."The taxpayers of Chicago, the taxpayers of Illinois are facing tax increases at every level of government," Laurence Msall of the Chicago Civic Federation said.Msall said a likely increase in the state's income tax could cause a counterproductive drop in Chicago's population."Growth in population is the key to the city's success," Msall said.Facing increased violent crime and a public school scandal, Mayor Emanuel insisted he's up to the challenge of getting approval on raising taxes."I didn't come here to perpetuate a problem. I actually came here to solve a problem not of my making," Mayor Emanuel said.The Chicago City Council will vote on the mayor's property tax hike in two weeks on October 28, 2015.