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Illinois considers allowing municipalities to impose local gas tax
Mystateline ^ | 03/21/2025 | John Clark

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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Illinois makes more money than the refinery. Never enough money for these pigs. 🙄🙄
1 posted on 03/22/2025 10:36:40 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They want to become the next California.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 10:38:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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Minnesota is further down that path.


3 posted on 03/22/2025 10:39:53 AM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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“””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.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 10:46:04 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe next they will let some midgets be trolls and collect taxes on the bridges. Sounds legit for this lunatic bunch!!


5 posted on 03/22/2025 10:46:41 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I feel sorry for rural Illinois people. Totally at the mercy of the rats who have complete control of the sate.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 10:46:57 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Absolutely right.


7 posted on 03/22/2025 10:48:44 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Illinois residents currently pay the second-highest gas tax in the country besides California, at 66 cents per gallon.

And California's roads are vastly worse, despite very little hard freezing.

8 posted on 03/22/2025 10:50:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


9 posted on 03/22/2025 10:51:57 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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> I feel sorry for rural Illinois people. Totally at the mercy of the rats who have complete control of the sate.

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.

10 posted on 03/22/2025 10:56:43 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Because you can never have too man taxes, Laffer Curve be damned.


11 posted on 03/22/2025 11:03:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


12 posted on 03/22/2025 11:06:20 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: mund1011

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.


13 posted on 03/22/2025 11:16:43 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


14 posted on 03/22/2025 11:17:16 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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It’s a billion


15 posted on 03/22/2025 11:19:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: mund1011

Fox lake used to be nice and quiet


16 posted on 03/22/2025 11:21:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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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.


17 posted on 03/22/2025 11:26:02 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: SecondAmendment

Exactly, the cities would run the country if it wasn’t for the EC. The founders really got that one right.


18 posted on 03/22/2025 11:34:02 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Suppose the rural municipalities imposed a relatively draconian tax and use the proceeds to fight Chicago.


19 posted on 03/22/2025 11:51:21 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Are yoor have you ever been, a Democrat?)
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To: iamgalt

Thank Scotus’ One-Man-One-Vote decision from the early 1960s for empowering Chicago to run Springfield.


20 posted on 03/22/2025 12:05:36 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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