Just wait until they learn that people are receiving sunlight and rain for free.
Yeah—That soda tax has worked wonders in Philadelphia.
Really turned city finances around.
I have to say it. Indiana wants no part of Illinois failure. Keep it over there!
Freakin’ libtards bankrupt and destroy everything they touch.
Nice article by Mr Di Leo. Good read.
George Harrison, 1966
They are consistent .... the stupid people that run Illinois and Chicago do stupid things ... consistently!
If they could find an effective way to tax the stupidity of the citizenry of Illinois they would be in the black instantly.
Next thing, they will be charging for protection like a favorite son, Al Capone.
People will buy soda for home consumption outside Cook county.
They can tax as narrow a target as naturally sweetened sodas, not including artificially sweetened zero calorie sodas. But that tax is easily dodged and budgetarily useless. How about trying this equally narrow, not dodgeable and budget saving tax? Tax government sourced pensions! IL constitution says you can’t reduce government pensions, but you would still be paying them in full, just taking back part as taxes. Naturally withheld at the source, like many other taxes, making it cheap to administer. You can even make the tax progressive so the little pensioners aren’t hit to hard, but the rich megapensioners are. You’re targeting a large enough revenue stream to close your budget hole. The private pensions aren’t the state’s problem, are already much better regulated than the public ones, and would be spared by this.
The time has come to end our Sanctuary City status, and to start executing convicted killers, muggers, drug dealers and violent rapists. We cannot hope to invite desirable new taxpayers in until we purge the city of the lawbreakers who have made it so inhospitable for half a century, landing us in the situation we’re in today.
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But a law abiding citizenry won’t tolerate corrupt politicians. Why does the author think the Democrats put such effort into building a crime ridden city?
So since they seem to be taxing every liquid you drink except alcohol and water....and a large precent of Illinois population are on the federal dole, they are fact taxing you and I....
Cooked County.
They could tax the shit out of 9MM rounds