Posted on 05/23/2004 4:04:57 AM PDT by sarcasm
Just a half-mile into DuPage County, a banner hanging at a gas station beckons: "Attention smokers. No $10 Cook County tax."
But the sign wasn't needed to draw in Sergio Zapata, 41. The Chicagoan buys a carton of cigarettes whenever his job as a security technician takes him outside Cook, where taxes have run $1 a pack--or $10 a carton--since April 1.
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Bud Kelley, a lobbyist for the Illinois Association of Tobacco and Candy Distributors, predicts that within six months at least 15 tobacco shops will open in the collar counties just across the Cook line.
"I can tell you they're either going to have to widen the highways or build some more," he said. "That Marlboro doesn't matter which side it comes from; it smokes the same."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Next thing you know...
Cook County cops patrolling the boarder to catch and fine the "cheaters."
A Cook County tax stamp?
Fines for cigs in Cook County without a tax stamp?
Some politician will be grandstanding about "smugglers"?
ping
I see a $10 toll booth in their future...
"Crook County"
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