Posted on 06/30/2024 1:24:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A leaked survey revealed a plan to explore 16 new tax and fee hikes on Chicago families. The Chicago City Council is diving into the plan on June 26.
The prospective hikes proposed to the city council by and Chairman of the City Council Subcommittee on Revenue Ald. Will Hall, 6th ward, could end up costing Chicagoans more on most expenses from standard services to property taxes. Hall is an ally in city hall to Chicago Mayor.
The 16 revenue proposals:
Sales tax on services Property tax tied to Consumer Price Index Monthly/wireless plan tax Increase in Local Government Distributive Fund Share Head tax Alcohol tax Checking bag tax Video gaming tax Grocery tax City sticker increase Congestion tax Income tax surcharge Package tax Vacant lot tax Ticket reseller amusement tax Enterprise zones
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoispolicy.org ...
Chicago, Chicago that tottering town!
How much is the “White Tax”?
How about Kevlar vests for all Chicago residents?
And more funding for police?
They’ll probably use the tax money for climate change and trips to conferences for the Mayor and council.
I remember the Detroit mayor jetting to the Carribean to meet with dozens of other mayors in an urban problems policy conference at a resort and luxury hotel complex.
Meanwhile it's safer to live in Haiti. Better services too. Free barbecue.
Time to go Fight Club on the Blight Club.
Increasing tax is a natural occurrence for black controlled cities, otherwise Africa would have been a place for tourists.
Video game tax?
Tax all those rich black residents and invade their neighborhoods with non-taxpayer illegal migrants. Nothing left to do but keep voting DemoRat. Yes we can!
AND take away their menthol cigarettes. That’ll show ‘em.
It is the Democrats way of conducting government.
Whaddaya expect, electing avowed admitted socialists.
Chicago, institute all of them.
You know, 16 new taxes will just start to get your tongue wet. You will need even more, if you want to really do something.
Are there any whites left in chicago?
The Emanuel family?
Chicago and Illinois are models for the rest of the country as far as a one-party Dem dictatorship goes. Neither Jabba the Pritzker nor Brandon nor Cook County Board President Preckwinkle are in power through anything resembling free and fair elections.
Then there is money to be made selling exemptions from the enacted taxes.
On the primary in March, 80% of the electorate did not turn out to vote
Have to do it to support all those illegal aliens who came to your sanctuary city. You wanted them, you got them.
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