All This, and a Tax Hike
Also worked into Rahm's budget proposal, the typical tax hike:
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will raise taxes on hotel rooms and downtown parking — along with fees on city stickers for SUV’s — to chip away at Chicago’s $635.7 million shortfall, aldermen were told Tuesday.
Emanuel has promised to erase the deficit without a general tax increase on sales or property or by cutting police officers or using one-time revenues.
But, he has opened the door to raising a host of more specialized taxes and fees, while turning off the free water spigot for hospitals, universities and other non-profits.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
38 Comments:
Man that little protest going on in front of the Fed bank is nothing.
This G8 summit will most likely not just attract every single occupy movement going on inside this country but every country.
This thing has gone global, just look around.
Its starting to sound redundant on this blog but i can't wait to leave this city..even if its across the street to an attached suburb. but more than likely im out of county and state..this city is for fools unless you are one of the few that benefit from it...
thats a bunch of crap, people pay more for "SUV" stickers already. I dont have one but it's bullshit none the less
Yeah right, no cut in police officers... bullshit
It's been cut to beyond and then some, just don't hire as the ranks dwindle.
Well see how deep it gets... I guess I'll get my dry suit out ande tanks filled....
How about taxing hybrids? City is losing out on gas taxes big time. Why stick it harder to a schmoe that is stuck driving his 10 yo suv cause he can't afford to live in this stink hole anymore?
Same old cure all. Raise taxes on those living and working here. Who the hell even wants to come into this town any way. When you can get out of Chicago. Even the towns bordering the city are better than living here.
i got an SUV, city sticker are going to co
st 150$ or more$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Love your city ... Can't afford any more nights though.
My daughter and son in law stayed downtown last weekend. $400 a night by the time you factored in the fees, ins and outs of the parking garage, tips to carry your bags, taxes. By the time they were done their budget had them passing on any fancy restaurants and choosing instead a cheaper pizza.
Take a look around Rahm, people's budgets have limits.
Next time they said they are going to northern Wisconsin where you can still get a glass of wine for under $7, not the $16 they were charging in the hotel lounge.
Still love your city, but for us it's been mostly day trips from Milwaukee and meals in Lake county on our way back up.
U got to love how he's calling all his increases fees not a tax increase...screw this asshole....
As the taxpayers leave the city and state in droves, the spendocrats will scratch their heads and wonder why, about that time the welfare breeders will go ape when their way of life can no longer be publicly funded.
Thats it!!!!I'm now gonna register my jeep to my twice dead grand fathers sisters aunties cousin in law who lives in Elmwood park,So THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There's people I'd like to visit and places I'd like to see there in Mordor, but I won't since crime's up (not your fault, SCC), taxes and fees are up (and I'm unwilling to give them to Rahmmer), and they won't let me bring my .38. I'd go so far as to say I'd drive around Chicago if I was going somewhere east from Minnesota. Good luck, you guys.
Matt
St Paul
hahahahaha glad I found a department with lat transfers out of this state!
Time to start taxing the bicyclists. There are more and more of them every year. Rahm is building more bike lanes so tax the bike people for using our streets. They run stop and red lights and pay no attention to traffic laws so start ticketing them also.More revenue for the city. License the bikes and make them put lights on them so they can be seen.
Anonymous said...
Its starting to sound redundant on this blog but i can't wait to leave this city..even if its across the street to an attached suburb. but more than likely im out of county and state..this city is for fools unless you are one of the few that benefit from it...
10/12/2011 12:27:00 AM
Retired a few years ago. Was fortunate enough to have a small cottage in Wisconsin from my childhood that my family bought for $12,300 in 1959. Every purchase I make, including my cars, are made up here in Wisconsin and my cars are registered here... NO city sticker fees, NO highest gasoline taxes in the country, NO highest sales tax in the country, a fraction of the real estate tax and auto insurance payments, NO Mayor Daley or Emanuel or 50 aldermen and the savages are mostly confined to Milwaukee... We're tired of supporting the political corruption, illegal population and the welfare state of Chicago.
"But, [Emanuel] has opened the door to raising a host of more specialized taxes and fees, while turning off the free water spigot for hospitals, universities and other non-profits."
The "Islamic Community Center" at Belmont/Narragansett had about fifteen city garbage totes behind it the last time I looked. Parking lot jammed with congregants -- hell, you can hardly get down the sidewalk when that place lets out. Let them pick up the phone and call for their own dumpster service.
cause he s the taxman. yeah, the taxman!
"Emanuel’s budget team billed the unspecified parking tax increase as a “congestion fee” designed to encourage motorists driving into the city’s Central Business District to take public transportation instead."
Go on -- charge $100 a head to get in. There is nothing I want downtown anymore.
All of the stores I used to go to all the time -- Marshall Field's, Abercrombie and Fitch when you could buy a gun right there on Wabash (shoulda bought that S&W .41 when it was marked down, a real beauty), the wonderful camera stores, the hobby shops, the bookstores, the newsstands, the food stores, hardware stores that carried precision tools like Starrett, the old library where you could relax, when it was not swarming with unpleasant "guards" and security hardware -- all gone, along with an awful lot of jobs.
On one commuter-train trip back from the Loop, I saw not one person on the entire train who could be characterized as "working with their hands." It was all Yuppies in after-work basketball sneakers with laptops and little plastic cups of wine -- and that was twenty years ago.
It breaks my heart.
I carry the real Loop with me only as a memory -- even though I still live in the city, it is like a million miles away. All that is left is a hollowed-out, high-priced shell of what used to be -- with "flash mobs" bursting from the subways.
Why bother?
I know that so many others feel the same.
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money.
I'm really looking to move out of state, but in the meantime I'm sure glad to be out in DuPage. Taxes are lower, free parking, same restaurants as downtown, better stores, less crime. No reason to go downtown anymore at all.
If I visit Chicago friends, I make sure to find a meter-free spot. Won't give the criminal pols in Chicago an extra penny. And I love seeing my Chicago friends out here in the 'burbs doing their shopping and filling their tanks!
How about the fake Iranian/Mexican cartel plot to divert attention from Fast and Furious?
Rahm, Holder and Co. know the people eat this shit up.
Don't believe these cocksuckers!
Big deal about the city sticker fees on suvs. When I was living in the city 3 years ago and driving a 6 cylinder ford ranger I was paying $175 a year for mine because it was a truck. I retired on the 15th. of August and moved out of the city on the 16th. Best move I ever made. Screw Rahm and his taxes.
Ret. 177
That "real Loop memory" must include pink elephants and snakes. Abercrombie and Fitch sold shotguns that cost the same as a nice house in the 60s and safari rifles which were more.
SSC - stop trying to make sense out of a Liberal DomoCRAP agenda.
It is all about the redistribution of wealth via taxes and what ever manner these scumbags can come up with.
Thinking back tm my Arny days - BOHICA!!
For 3:20 . If you suv is of the larger variety it is probably built on a truck chassis. Stop complaining he could of wanted to raise the suv stickers to 180 which is what a full size pickup sticker costs
10:55 A.M. are you not State taxed on your Pension?
The Mayor doesn't listen to his constituents when they say "CUT THE NUMBER OF ALDERMEN AND THEIR STAFFS" He wants to hurt the working people, not the chiefs at city hall.
I wonder of Rham knew anything about the guns to Mexico?
"Time to start taxing the bicyclists. There are more and more of them every year. Rahm is building more bike lanes so tax the bike people for using our streets. They run stop and red lights and pay no attention to traffic laws so start ticketing them also.More revenue for the city. License the bikes and make them put lights on them so they can be seen."
--10/12/2011 10:29:00 AM
A. All that s__t is on the books already.
Backlog.
B. How about the fleets of creaking, groaning, dangerous scrap metal and used-mattress trucks driven by illegal aliens -- cardboard license plate, no city sticker, no insurance, one headlight hanging by a wire, wadded-up paper for a gas cap.
Oh. I forgot. Sanctuary City.
"That "real Loop memory" must include pink elephants and snakes. Abercrombie and Fitch sold shotguns that cost the same as a nice house in the 60s and safari rifles which were more."
--10/12/2011 06:07:00 PM
The .41 was in the corner of the display case. You musta missed it. :-)
Oh, sure, they had some real fancy stuff -- also some more practical. I remember looking over a beautiful Colt Sauer .458 Winchester Magnum bolt action; it was about $600 at the time, early '70s.
Then of course there was Marshall Field's Store For Men, up on the fifth floor, where the seven-foot grizzly greeted you when the elevator doors opened.
Or you could save up S&H Green Stamps...where was the redemption center, was it in Wieboldt's?
Things ain't the same...
The ONE and only thing we got a break on in this city is the cost of water was reasonable. Now they want to take that away too. Thanks 9½!
I pay $180.00 a year for a Ford F150 Pick Up Truck that I can't park on the streets. Not B Truck Plates either. Wonder what the hell that is gonna cost me now....
I'm getting penalized for having an SUV?? How the fuck do I fit my family of 5 into a fucking Prius?? Thanks a lot jag off. How about charging these fucks who get arrested?? Charge them a "fee /fine" for being arrested and being transported in a police vehicle....just like the fire dept does. I figure a mandatory $150.00 fee for transport should rake in about $20 million or so. Why should I keep getting it stuck up my ass for working and struggling to raise a family when these shitheads get arrested every other day of the week without ramifications??? Fuck them, make them pay for my sticker...as far as I am concerned our stickers should be FREE for the shit we deal with!! Sgt. Gogo
Still love your city, but for us it's been mostly day trips from Milwaukee and meals in Lake county on our way back up.
10/12/2011 04:24:00 AM
Why don't you get it? You state a very compelling case, yet you still insist on coming here. As long as you continue to patronize this city, the politicians will never get the message.
He wants to hurt the working people, not the chiefs at city hall.
10/12/2011 11:21:00 PM
It's thief, not chief, so it would be thieves, not chiefs.
"I pay $180.00 a year for a Ford F150 Pick Up Truck that I can't park on the streets. Not B Truck Plates either. Wonder what the hell that is gonna cost me now...."
--10/13/2011 07:53:00 PM
Bash the thing up, paint "pIcK MeTaL" on the side with some old house paint, knock out a headlight, and fill the thing with scrap or old mattresses. You can then park wherever you want; this is a "Sanctuary City."
As I saw the other night, if you get into a collision, and your damaged car is left sideways blocking a traffic lane, just peel the license plates off -- I suspect they were on carpet tape -- and walk away.
No es problema.
I wonder if the G8 rioters will be too broke to show up and pay their way into the city now?
How about offering TAX BREAKS for those who start or import corporations within the Chicago city limits? That way more people can come in and work and live in the city and naturally use the services and those support businesses (food, homes, rent, entertainment) get more customers and more income- from volume- which is just taxed and the current rate or even a lower rate.
The city gets more money without raping for dollars or cutting off free water to the old folks home and more people get jobs and the local economy sees an up in the velocity of money. All by LOWERING taxes and not raising them!
Retired a few years ago. Was fortunate enough to have a small cottage in Wisconsin from my childhood that my family bought for $12,300 in 1959. Every purchase I make, including my cars, are made up here in Wisconsin and my cars are registered here... NO city sticker fees, NO highest gasoline taxes in the country, NO highest sales tax in the country, a fraction of the real estate tax and auto insurance payments, NO Mayor Daley or Emanuel or 50 aldermen and the savages are mostly confined to Milwaukee... We're tired of supporting the political corruption, illegal population and the welfare state of Chicago.
10/12/2011 10:55:00 AM
Love it up there, but Wisconsin taxes the pension. OTOH, without a house payment and the excessive Cook County and Chicago taxes, fees, costs, etc, do you find a taxed pension to be tolerable in order to have an overall better quality and less-expensive life?
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