Posted on 03/22/2025 10:36:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — A new bill under consideration in the Illinois House would allow individual municipalities to impose their own, local motor fuel tax on top of the state’s gas tax.
House Bill 1283 would create the Municipal Motor Fuel Tax Law, allowing cities, towns and villages to impose their own gas tax, at a rate not to exceed 3 cents per gallon.
The bill was introduced by Rep. Anthony DeLuca (D-80th).
Illinois residents currently pay the second-highest gas tax in the country besides California, at 66 cents per gallon.
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They want to become the next California.
Minnesota is further down that path.
“””Minnesota is further down that path.”””
And I sort of remember a story about how they put the gas tax money in with the general fund instead of putting it towards road repair.
Maybe next they will let some midgets be trolls and collect taxes on the bridges. Sounds legit for this lunatic bunch!!
I feel sorry for rural Illinois people. Totally at the mercy of the rats who have complete control of the sate.
Absolutely right.
And California's roads are vastly worse, despite very little hard freezing.
Corruption isn’t free, you have to pay for it. Price variation from Walworth County, WIS to Fox Lake, ILL is insane. Last summer / fall I remember pricing about $2.75 in WI and on the way home it was $3.50 in Hellinois. Thats about 20 miles.
Same thing with cigarettes, if unfortunately you have that monkey on your back.
This has been an issue since before the founding of our Nation, and is the primary reason why we have an Electoral College.
It is also why leftists want to ban the private ownership of property.
Because you can never have too man taxes, Laffer Curve be damned.
I’ve seen this play out a dozen times. People will drive further to get a few cents off. Or, you’ll have a station across the street not subject to the tax. It actually has to raise its price or risk running out of gas. Stations make zero money on gas. They make something like sixteen dollars in beer, cigarettes and lotto ticket sales for every dollar of gas sales. (They generally make a Nickle on a dollar of gas sold.) In general, the tax revenue does not increase to the level they want.
I’m on the wrong side of the Illinois/Wisconsin border. There is a gas station a quarter mile south of the state line in Illinois, their gas averages 30 cents a gallon more than the gas station a quarter mile into Wisconsin. On my way to get gas in Wisconsin I pass the Illinois station and shake my head in amazement looking at the dummies filling up there.
I heard Chicago’s dealing with a budget deficit of around 900 million dollars.
I wonder if this gas tax is aimed at Chicago, so they can get 3 cents more a gallon from everybody who gets gas.
It’s a billion
Fox lake used to be nice and quiet
Holy fill in the blank.....
A billion dollar deficit???
That’s some serious money.
Well , not to be happy about problems of our political opponents, but, there’s little if any Republican political presence in Chicago. So there’s no way they can blame their problems on Republicans.
Exactly, the cities would run the country if it wasn’t for the EC. The founders really got that one right.
Suppose the rural municipalities imposed a relatively draconian tax and use the proceeds to fight Chicago.
Thank Scotus’ One-Man-One-Vote decision from the early 1960s for empowering Chicago to run Springfield.
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