Prickwrinkle to Raise Taxes
- When it was a bad thing, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle referred to it as the “Stroger sales tax.”
Now, Preckwinkle is considering bringing back a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax increase that helped her defeat her predecessor, Todd Stroger.
So she runs on the promise of repealing the tax, wins, repeals the tax, fails to cut any spending and in fact increases the County debt load, so has to resort to ....raising taxes! It's fucking brilliant!
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posted by SCC at 12:21 AM
51 Comments:
Yet another liar reelected by a overwhelming majority and endorsed by the glowing media. They all smell in this one. Damn.
Preckwinkle is either admitting Stroger was right (possibly the first time anyone has ever said that) or that she has failed.
To liberals (democrats) all money belongs to the government, be it city state or federal government. By raising taxes they are just keeping a little bit more of the government's money for the government to spend. Besides the government can always spend any money you might have for better things than you ever could. Individuals who manage to acquire private money always waste it on frivolous things that benefit only them. The government spends money to benefit everyone and everyone gets an equal share.
shes a nasty bitch She didnt want mandatory sentencing for UUW convictions because in her view there are already too many blacks and browns in jail.
Read my lips, no new taxes.
How much time is left on her term and who will replace her when she gets voted out?
Jesse Jr.?
Hahahahahaha!
rb
And she's a big time hater to boot!
You need to tax the big corporations and their employees that commute from outside the county. What can those multinational corporations do? Leave? Move to a city in a warmer state that has no income tax? That could never happen.
Tax the Corporations! Tax their employees! That will turn Chicago around!
She needs to push a $15/hour minimum wage too!
The taxes from the $15/hour wage earners and the improved economy will swamp the county treasury in a tidal wave of new money.
Does ANYONE who is in an elected position in Chicago, Cook County and even the state government know this phrase -- "Cut Spending"?
This is sickening to read because you know people like me are going to avoid coming down not only to Chicago, but into Cook County as well.
I have gotten into a mindset that if I buy anything in Cook County, I am getting ripped off so I can help pay for bloated and "double-decker" pensions.
Sorry, but you're on your own. What I just save in parking to come down for a dinner, I can go out for another dinner.
Bears games? Thanks, but no thanks. I'll just watch them on TV. Sox, Cubs, Hawks? Sorry, I'll just watch them on TV.
Even if I got free tickets to the games, I would just give them away because it's not worth driving in. (Well, if someone would buy the tickets, I'd sell them. I'm not stupid.)
Who put her in charge??
Typical DemocRAT, what a liar!
I shop in Indiana. Hello chi troit
How's Thor doing?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Add a 1 cent tax to all potato chip bags.
Hey, Cook County's property taxes are rather low compared to surrounding areas. Naperville, Carol Stream, and various other communities taxes are double what Chicago's are.
And yet the democratic liberal disease continues to spread and leave disaster in its wake.
Higher taxes in Chicago and Cook County is a good thing. With higher taxes, the poor and working class move out. But the wealthy will move in. Don't believe me? Look around you. Chicago is going through another building boom. Condos and big, huge beautiful 4000 square feet homes being built all over the place. The rich, wealthy, educated, cultured and entrepreneurial class are moving in. Even by Portage Park this new breed of people are moving in. I know because I live in Portage Park. Mayor Daley was a smart man. Make city living so expensive that the problem people leave. Then the people we do want will move in.
OOPS! My mistake. Her ex is Zeus, not Thor.
I get my Gods mixed up.
No keeses for me.
"We don't have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem"- democrats motto
The one problem that no democrat wants to face is the fact public workers are paid far more in pay and benefits then their private counterparts and can retire with a pension at a very early age. Labor costs are a major part of the reason for tax increases every year. No one want to pay less to a public employee, but somewhere the line has to be drawn. Wait until the board of education declares bankruptcy.
Have you seen the lines at the Gas Stations in the County's next to Cook,Gas is 30 cents less and Cigarettes cost 4 dollars a pack less,Thats 40 million a year Cook County is losing.
Prepwinkle is a Socialist Piece of Shit.
Highest taxes in the whole USA.......highest public education cost in the whole USA.....highest pension debt in the whole USA.....
Rottenest, cheating-est, stealing-est, most dishonest and greedy politicians in the whole USA......
More people NOT working and on the dole than there are working taxpayers.....
Lowest high school test scores and graduation rate in the whole USA......
W.T.F. Where does it end? How much more can they steal via taxation from Joe Little Guy, the schmuck who pays for all this?
How much more can Joe Little Guy afford to support?
WE all need to VOTE them all out......clean the house so to speak.....demand an end to the extras, pay the bills first, like you and I and Joe Little Guy does.....Cut Government in Half would be a good starting point.....I don't need an alderman, a state rep, a state senator, a county commissioner, a US rep, a US senator......each with hundreds of staff.....all there just to serve me? Ridiculous....
We need 100 percent participation in all the elections.......because they are sucking us dry!
keep on voting Democratic
When she took office and repealed it didn't she only repeal it 50%? Now it's going up 1%. That results in an overall increase in the sales tax, which happens to be the highest in the nation of another 1/2%. You gotta love these democratic reformers...NOT!!!
Yet the cook county resident will barely grumble, and it will pass. Time for pitchforks and torches people...Rome is about to burn
Has to Pay Ray Hamilton and Hamsters The Terrorist Experts
Pinkwinkle could trim her budget by looking into all her patronage hires at CCFPDP, thats the tree police where she has managed to stow away some supporters and no doubt other places, she's a pol' thru and thru
6/23/2015 06:25:00 AM
Blogger The Keesing Bandit said...
How's Thor doing?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
6/23/2015 06:50:00 AM
You got your lightning gods mixed up.
And besides, Toni aka "Baron Asura" and
ol' Zeus are dee-vorced now.
So the mission falls to you Mistuh Keesing Bandit!
So go on...
You have the talent to make Toni's "weaned on a sour pickle"
expression turn into a smile as she giggles like a giddy
school-girl when you work your magic.
Why... We'll even pass da hat to fund this riotous romp.
Think of it as doing society a solid...
;^) XD XD XD (^;
One for the team.
Oui?
Non?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
And she's a big time hater to boot!
6/23/2015 01:51:00 AM
Toni needs a White House post...
She would blend right in with those
other uber-nasty haters and classists
from Chicago.
But the reality is they're only a reflection of the
Machine that allowed them to get where they are.
She looks more like Bullwinkle!
Cook County has a spending problem fraught with waste. That includes the multiple layers of entitlement and giveaways. Don’t forget the party in charge gives tax breaks to selected businesses along with seed grants and assorted tax “relief” mechanisms.
The party of the middle class is always taxing the working Joes and Josephines always asking for more of what’s left over of that already taxed money. Big labor, also for the little guy, is always silent when their remaining living wage gets taxed again in essence taxes on top of taxes. Big labor and the democrats are birds of a feather who flock together.
We keep asking more “sacrifices’” from the working poor while the non-producers keep getting “free: money without that eroding effect of taxation on disposable income.
The party in absolute control of the city and county runs the taxing bodies, the courts, the legislative bodies, the prosecuting bodies and law enforcement on all levels. This is in stark contrast of the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution.
Wisconsin Tax is only just a little over 5 per cent...its a lovely state with much the same things Cook County has....I think I'll move there.
And we don't need no 10 per cent tax and we don't need a new Ferris Wheel with a $300 million dollar price tag on it so about one dozen friends of McPier get rich and become zillionaires!!! No stinking way.
She won't admit the younger Stroger was right. CLTV did say that she won the election by getting rid of that tax. And now she's putting it back in. Lol!
I shop in Hammond. I'll use 2 gallons of gas to just give my money to Republicans.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
You need to tax the big corporations and their employees that commute from outside the county. What can those multinational corporations do? Leave? Move to a city in a warmer state that has no income tax? That could never happen.
Tax the Corporations! Tax their employees! That will turn Chicago around!
6/23/2015 02:34:00 AM
You are stupid. Just like the real estate troll who says Chicago is turning into an oasis of rich people. Honestly, is Chicago in the same league as Toronto, Tokyo, Singapore, Berlin, Hong Kong, etc. Not even close. Not even close. Yet we have fools who think we are.
"Higher taxes in Chicago and Cook County is a good thing. With higher taxes, the poor and working class move out. But the wealthy will move in. Don't believe me? Look around you. Chicago is going through another building boom. Condos and big, huge beautiful 4000 square feet homes being built all over the place. The rich, wealthy, educated, cultured and entrepreneurial class are moving in..."
6/23/2015 07:56:00 AM
Iteration #6, I think.
Don't forget that Ms prickwinkle also wants to replace liberal States Atty Alvarez with an even more liberal "pos" - her Chief of Staff! She's become even more evil than Todd Stroger. She appears to be sincere while stabbing taxpayers in the back. Time to find another candidate who won't sell the taxpayers down the river.
Bears games? Thanks, but no thanks. I'll just watch them on TV. Sox, Cubs, Hawks? Sorry, I'll just watch them on TV.
Even if I got free tickets to the games, I would just give them away because it's not worth driving in. (Well, if someone would buy the tickets, I'd sell them. I'm not stupid.)
6/23/2015 05:11:00 AM
Looks like you'll be playing checkers and doing a lot of puzzles at home. Sounds great. Enjoy your extra cash.
no tax increase until they reduce the bloated pension of bobbie steele
what the heck she works a few months as president of cook county board and pension is more than her salary as a commissioner .
This is not a surprise.
Libtard POS!!!
Dump the Commie Bitch.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Add a 1 cent tax to all potato chip bags.
6/23/2015 07:34:00 AM
Add another 2cents to the orange soda, and pension problem solved.
Oh, wait, We pay for the link card. It's our money anyway..
6/23/2015 07:56:00 AM
You are either out of your fucking mind or you are a retarded realtor. Realtors are always optimistic to the point of being delusional. Housing prices and the subsequent mortgage payment are way overvalued compared to income. We will probably see another housing bubble burst again. This economy is built on the pillars of easy credit and endless Central Bank interventions.
aren't taxes how you get paid???
Make city living so expensive that the problem people leave. Then the people we do want will move in.
6/23/2015 07:56:00 AM
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Ever heard of section 8? It pays the big rents necessary to have assholes live next door to you. They throw bottles and chip bags on the lawn, throw cigarette butts everywhere. Trample the grass, fuck around with their hoopty by the curb and wash the car in front of the house and other things that make YOU want to live elsewhere. Have loud parties late at night because I sleep all day, work is for you chumps. Non stop loud talk, arguments and physical altercations at all hours of the day and night. Maybe 10 or 12 people living in the apartment from time to time, the list of the presents these shits bring with them is endless.
Don't they have some sort of mission at Portage Park every night? Yes sir, a real gentrifying community.
I.....I just don't know what to say or THINK ANYMORE with these Axeholes in charge......
Some couples decide to have another child based on their steady employment and a favorable outlook on their earning potential. The favorable employment conditions leads them to believe they can support another child.
NEW YORK (AP) — The baby recession may be at an end: After a five-year span in which the number of children born in the United States dropped each year, 2013 saw a minute increase.
According to a new government report, the number of babies born last year rose by about 4,700, the first annual increase since 2007.
Many couples had money problems and felt they couldn't afford to start or add to their family, they believe.
Now the economy has picked up and so has child-bearing, at least in women ages 30 and older — the teen birth rate dropped sharply once again, and birth rates still fell for women in in their 20s.
Some families are recession proof, ya dig.
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This crazy racist Preckwinkle wants to get her pawn Chief of Staff elected as State's Attorney? Are you kidding me??? What a joke she and her pawn are! She'd dismantle law enforcement as her final act of socialist vengeance. Disgusting.
cut bobbie steeles pension be4 you raise taxes
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