All Hail Toni!
Shifting the unpopular taxes so she can be the hero....like Rahm and Shortshanks used to do:
- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will nix her 3 percent amusement tax proposal and instead push for a 1 percent hotel tax, Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin said Thursday.
A 1 percent hike would spike Chicago’s hotel tax to 17.4 percent. And although not yet formally proposed, some hotel representatives are concerned a hike would affect the city’s ability to land conventions.
Suffredin said Finance Committee Chairman John Daley, D-Chicago, invited him to a meeting with Preckwinkle Thursday morning in which she discussed the 1 percent hotel tax, Suffredin said. He called it a “change in direction.”
Of course, when it finally becomes public knowledge that the upcoming Convention Season is going to be one of the worst in recent memory, Toni will have to come up with some sort of hike in fines, fees or taxes to cover the shortfall from this fantasy revenue stream.
Labels: county, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:21 AM
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Toni, when will you actually cut spending?
Hotels pay ZOGG a 34.8 percent tax to stay in one of their rooms
I hate myself for saying this but; How about a county wheel tax? There must be 2 or 3 million vehicles in Cook County. At $100 a pop, you now have 200 or 300 million dollars. Voila! Problem solved....until next election.
Give Toni credit for looking ahead. The economy is going in the tank. That is the only reason for a poor tourist/convention season.
Keep voting for these jagoffs in this city / county. Y'all getting what u deserve.
Nevertheless, 2016 shapes up to be a particularly difficult year for hotels. It will be short on conventions because it was supposed to be the year that Chicago played host to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
Chicago was eliminated from consideration in Oct 2009... so that means these conventions are booked SEVEN years in advance? I don't believe it. The strippers and call girls can't be that good around here.
How about cutting some of the bloated budget???
Get some of these goofs off the payroll.
If anything, CUT taxes, to make Chicago and Cook County more competitive.
You'd have a LOT less people driving out to IN and up to WI buying things at 5% sales tax.
Trump is so right - this country is being led by incompetence. You don't have to travel far, you can see it right here in this state.
She probably was starting to stick it in but then decided to fuck the taxpayers somewhere else instead. It's coming
How many of the Chicago based Fortune 500 Companies regularly fly in executives and workers for several days or weeks of training and meetings every year? Maybe they'll fly them to Dallas, Atlanta, or Minneapolis instead? How much of the downtown restaurant business is from out of state? Shopping? You know, those middle and upper income people that used to love coming to the big city?
Just like that gun tax drove people out of Cook to other counties to purchase a gun, the hotel taxes will do the same.
Heard we already lost a great big Microsoft convention...
When you run out of other people's money, you just print more money. That's the Obama way!
Too bad Toni can't print money like the Federal Reserve does to pay for all of Obama's programs.
Cut spending. Cut spending. Cut spending. Crash. That's the sound of falling on deaf ears.
With most of Cook County now cities, towns and villages. Is there really still a need for Cook County government?
Hahahahahahaha.....
Chicago corporations screaming bloody murder over a one percent tax increase.
How much has the taxes gone up for the average middle class taxpayer in Chicago?!!
How's it feel to be Tiny Dancers and the fifty thieves personal ATM machine?
There should be a big sign at Ohare, WELCOME TO CHICAGO, NOW TAKE OUT YOUR WALLET AND BEND OVER. There also should be a digital crawler under the sign giving the number of daily shootings and homicides. ♠️
Dump this bitch! Keeps raising taxes to pay for unneeded shit. Can anyone tell me why Cook County needed the overnight camp grounds reopened?
Hotel taxes are loved because the politicians can say the "other guy" pays the taxes. Only problem is that when we travel we are the "other guy" and don't think for a second that the businesses who pay the taxes for their employee travel don't add that extra cost to the cost of goods and services. Higher prices for all, but invisible. We all pay. More pandering.
Effective this January 1, 2016, Chicagoans will have the dubious distinction of having the highest sales tax rate in the nation: 10.25 percent.
Crime is up thanks Toni "to many black and brown felons in jail!" let them out to cause more mayhem right toni? Over here is durbin announcing 67 millions of our money is being used for hud (section 8) housing to destroy nice areas! Wonder if any are moving next door to durbin,rahm,toni or the 50 sheep?
http://www.realestaterama.com/2015/11/05/durbin-announces-67-million-in-hud-funding-for-illinois-housing-and-community-development-ID029523.html
Remember that water shortage in California, where government regulated water use in order to conserve what little they had(no watering lawns, washing cars, flushing toilets)?
Turns out they did such a good job that local government was forced to raise water fees because folks weren't using enough water to pay the necessary taxes to cover the budget.
But, you know, free stuff.
Luckily I was able to sell my home in Cook County and move to Will County. And I was in the suburbs too. Got whacked at closing with a raise in Cook Taxes Paid and done. I no longer shop or will buy anything ever again in Cook County. I hope you all can do the same before you go broke from their taxes. Will County is not perfect but it certainly is cheaper!
Don't we already have the highest Hotel Tax in the country.
(part of the corruption tax)
Time to Bail Out of Shitcago said...
Effective this January 1, 2016, Chicagoans will have the dubious distinction of having the highest sales tax rate in the nation: 10.25 percent.
11/06/2015 11:05:00 AM
I stopped buying on Amazon.com because they were foolish enough to open a brick & mortar store in Chicago and stare charging sales tax. Shop around and save money.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Crime is up thanks Toni "to many black and brown felons in jail!" let them out to cause more mayhem right toni? Over here is durbin announcing 67 millions of our money is being used for hud (section 8) housing to destroy nice areas! Wonder if any are moving next door to durbin,rahm,toni or the 50 sheep?
http://www.realestaterama.com/2015/11/05/durbin-announces-67-million-in-hud-funding-for-illinois-housing-and-community-development-ID029523.html
11/06/2015 11:50:00 AM
Durbin why not announce you assisted on getting a National Guard call up, right in the heart of the "killing fields" west side, soufside,in the infested areas yep it's the Black areas the blm black lies matter group and others have let it get this far why? Well constant police bashing, constant no police support hey elected ever watch the great man Sheriff David Clarke from Milwaukee county on Fox news? Debate him this man knows what time it is, could you imagine the support would have with a man like David Clarke pure "testicular Fortitude" a man that understands "The black issues" yes he is Black! The difference is the sheriff stands up and tells the truth and rahm the other elected the "gold star club" quoting Jack Nicholson "You cant handle the truth!"
Asshole politicians never learn. After the Union fees, regulations against plugging a cord into a power strip at a booth, etc. over at McCormick Place on top of the usual Shitty fees and taxes killed the Convention business, they had a moment and cut all that back down to Earth and attracted business again...
Now they're fat 'n happy and forgetting what happened, so let's JACK IT UP TO THE MOON! FEES FOR EVERYONE! TAXES! WOOOO HOOOO!
Morons... LOWER TAXES and FEES attract business and purchases... Oh well, better weather in Orlando...
I just linked to and read this article. Turned my stomach.
http://www.realestaterama.com/2015/11/05/durbin-announces-67-million-in-hud-funding-for-illinois-housing-and-community-development-ID029523.html
Talk about spreading the cancer. ♠️
I heard during the interview for merit promotions that zogg interviewed McCarthy
Taxes!!!! Oh nooooo!!!!!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Dump this bitch! Keeps raising taxes to pay for unneeded shit. Can anyone tell me why Cook County needed the overnight camp grounds reopened?
11/06/2015 09:50:00 AM
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Because people can't afford to stay in the hotels any more.
She's Grady from Sanford and Sons
The Entire Cook County Board Should cease to exist.
I believe she should have stuck with the amusement tax, most of the things posted on here are amusing as hell. lmao
Rahm, everyone hates your guts.
Land Conventions, hah all the money spent is tax deductible including their escorts. Most of Cook county's expenses are providing for the shit head gun shot victims and housing the ass holes that shot them
Will the Republican Party wake up and find a viable candidate to run for States Atty. And in three years a candidate for Cook Co Bd President and Sheriff? There are enough pissed off voters who will vote these clowns out of office - but strong candidates are needed!
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