Everywhere a Tax Tax
- Calling it a “difficult but necessary choice,” Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle on Thursday proposed a “moderate” tax on sweetened soft drinks as part of her $4.4 billion 2017 county operating budget.
Preckwinkle said the one-penny-per-ounce tax is necessary to help avoid devastating layoffs and close a $174.3 million budget shortfall for next year.
“I do want to be clear that I didn’t come to this decision lightly,” Preckwinkle said, addressing her fellow Cook County Board members. “The proposal put before you represents months of effort — working with business and labor leaders, our criminal justice stakeholders, our public health team and my fellow elected officials.”
The tax — which the beverage industry strongly opposes — would go into effect on July 1, 2017. If approved, the cost of a 99-cent can of soda would increase to $1.11; a 20-ounce bottle, from $2.19 to $2.39.
County government is a redundant government - there is almost no function that isn't already covered by a municipal government. Essentially, it's a giant patronage Machine sucking money out of taxpayers for the connected. And Prickwrinkle is dipping into everyone's pocket once again.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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I carry a cooler in the trunk with water , pop, energy drinks purchased, to benefit my bottom line ,out of the county. Fuck cook county ! I quit purchasing fuel here years ago . It requires a little bit of planning but it feels so good !
Funny how I've often asked what the county as an entity does.
“The proposal put before you represents months of effort — working with business and labor leaders, our criminal justice stakeholders, our public health team and my fellow elected officials.”
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Months of efforts with many highly paid, sophisticated (?) and "supposedly" learned people from different walks of life and the BEST you can come up with is put a tax on Soda?????
Sounds more like a meeting of Mental Midgets in Moronville.
Start taxing ALL EBT/SNAP/Food stamp purchases.
Hey, if they got enough money for tattoos, weaves, fingernail art, and 24" Rims,(not to mention guns & ammo) they got enough to put in something into the pot.
I am making a difficult but necessary choice, as well, Toni.
I WILL NOT SHOP in Chicago already, due to certain taxes being levied on my food, drink and simple pleasures.
If you put me in this position, I will do all the shopping I can possibly do OUTSIDE OF Cook County.
And, just for kicks, I am in the process of purchasing a one acre piece of property about half a mile west of Cook County, where I plan to build my new home.
The reason for the tax is, ostensibly, to help people get healthier by making soda pop so expensive that no one wants to purchase it, but the County thinks they're going to reap some big money from the tax.
Huh?
But wait, it gets better. Let's assume that Tony Prickwrinkle is hoping to help those people from the "community" that she thinks overpopulate Dart Land will lose some weight, and get healthier because they won't be able to afford so much soda!
A laudable goal to be certain, but ummm, persons using SNAP benefits aka EBT cards aka LINK cards don't get charged tax on purchases. The Government doesn't want to tax itself...
So essentially, this is a tax on people who have money. You know, the people who don't live in the "community", and who are supposedly underrepresented in Dart Land. Tony's figuring those people will be too stupid to leave the confines of Crook County to purchase in bulk and will pay the tax...
Somehow I don't think this is going to reap them anything but a bunch of unemployed delivery drivers and stores that go out of business because no one buys their stuff... or maybe that's the ultimate goal of the Dumbocrats?
Just wait until they decide to tax beer.
Al Bundy is just waiting for it.
Outrageous cigarette tax..tax on booze....tax on water..I'm 20 minutes away from lake and Dupage County....Tony I don't give a Fuck..
Just another way the CROOK COUNTY liars used every available trick to tax every working person who lives, works or other wise just passing through this ISLAND OF TAX ZOMBIES just to save their miserable existence !!!!!!!!!!!!
And what happens when people don't drink as much coke? Stupid taxes like this only hurt the poor.
Not a cop and not even in Chicago, but enjoy the blog. I work for the railroad and a lot of the job satisfaction/political complaints are similar in nature.
Why is it they never cut spending? Its always raise TAXES. Then they come with ,like Rahm says in his budget speech how we saved the tax payer millions of dollars.wtf.
What is Toni doing?
Doesn't she realize that this tax will hit the black and brown, her words re: County Jail, people especially hard? There's oodles of grape and orange pop sold "in the community"
Of course she's not going to cut the States Attorneys budget, her girl Fox will be taking that over. Thats ok 1% layoffs is good enough. Doesn't 1% of the workforce retire every year?
Already do all my shopping outside of cook. Soon to be moving outside of cook as well. This state continues its descent.
SCC: Don't miss a "Major" lesson in Illinois Machine Politics 101, to come out of the WikiLeaks. A local paper ran with it but it is a real lesson in Illinois Politics. It seems that the Hillary Campaign reached out to Bill Daley to talk to Madigan, the former Governor of Illinois, until Rauner stood up to him. Clinton wanted a date changed on an election. Madigan said NO, because he felt Obama had abandoned Illinois. And in all this barely reported revelations a lot of things are explained. The Old Daley Democrat Machine was inherited by Madigan, not Rahm. At this point in time Rahm is a Political Liability, because of his suppression of the McDonald tape. No matter how much he appeases the Blacks, they will not forget that tape, and if he confronts a Preckwinkle candidate, that tape will be played non-stop in the next Mayoral election. Hillary will not even be seen at the same event with Rahm. Rahm has to meet with his former White House colleagues in Private/Secret, no photo op here. Me Thinks even Sneed won't take his calls, so she keeps stealing Scoops from SCC! The result of all this is an absence of "Push" by the Machine for Hillary! Have you noticed that a Hillary bumper sticker or sign is as rare as a Chicago Police Lieutenant without a Sponsor? Last week while driving through the People's Republic of Evanston I saw more BLM posters than Hillary posters. In my neighborhood on the City's North Side, the only Hillary sign is in front of my hostile Lesbian neighbor's house. (She thinks she is more Butch than I, though I must admit her wife looks Hot!) Apparently Obama has forgotten his Illinois, Hawaii and Indonesia Roots, as has Hillary. These products of the gritty Middle and Working Class Union driven Machines, go international; and forget that they ultimately shit, piss and die like the rest of us. And that old Illinois political lesson, that I believe came from King Richard I, of Bridgeport takes hold: "All Politics is Local". You dance with the person that brought you to the dance, or you leave the dance alone. STAY FETAL, STAY FETAL, F%CK RAHM! BABY"G", Sgt. Emeritus in Chicago Political Science
Voters should have just the opposite issues Toni. Instead we have a necessry choice and easy choice; dump your narrow ass out the door at the next election. The stakeholders in the county cannot afford your brand of management and criminal justice. We want criminals locked up in closed jail divisions and not on the streets with us. We want you to manage and if you have to screw anyone, screw your cronies and not the citizens.
Just think how much more soft drinks will cost when the cashier starts putting the items into double plastic bags.
If Preckwinkle was serious about reducing taxes, and she is not, this girl would reduce the size of county government and reduce payroll costs. Most county workers make 30% more in pay and benefits then their private sector counterparts and many do not work within their job description. Payroll accounts for most of the budget. Studies have been done on this very topic but the county will not release them. Recall the two women who were on the payroll of one of the county commissioners for over 90 grand a year as administrators? All they did were personal errands for the commissioner and planned parties . There is plenty of that going on
how much will the county really make after all the big stores at the edge of cook count close Walmart, Jewel etc. They will lose all the property tax money Vacant land is low property tax how many people will lose their jobs
A 2 litre bottle of grape or orange pop at the typical ghetto corner store will now be 1.63 vs 99 cents. A little less spare change to buy loosies I guess. Win win. Lol.
Why do we still need a taxpayer funded hospital system with Obamacare? The taxpayer is paying higher federal taxes so people without insurance have coverage but Cook county says they need more tax dollars for the uninsured and Stroger Hospital. Is it that Obamacare does not work?
Another bleed of Cook County tax dollars is the court costs for non criminal cases where the case is tried in Cook County but occurred in another county, for example a dram shop case from Fox Lake (Lake County) that was filed and tried in Cook County.
There are manny many cases like them.
It sounds like a good tax. No one has to pay it, if they don't drink sweet soda waters. Plain ole tap water is cheaper and better for you anyway. The county needs the money.
What about townships? Why do we still have them?
The 6 a.m. morning news on Channel 2 had a story on accidental shooting in homes across the nation. The propaganda piece suggested that legal gun ownership and guns contained in homes somehow equated to a rise in gun violence. Not the action of criminals I might add.
Channel 2 then cites the shooting of a six year old in Englewood who was shot on her front porch. The archived footage shows a porch, pans away to casings on the street with yellow markers and then narrates that over 40 shots were fired. “Accidental” discharge in the home and “legal” ownership of firearms is a far stretch to make your case against “legal” ownership and firearms in the homes as a means of self defense. This was obviously a gangland shooting. Nice try but the informed masses see right through your b.s.
Plus $.07 for the bag to put it in. Living in the city is kind of like in a pool full of sharks, and a bleeding wound. Pols want your last dollar to use for their election purposes, and huge pay raises for the elite.
If you have a LINK card you don't pay taxes or surcharges.
What's next, a condom tax?
Lake county sells all kinds of pop, fuck crook county, take a ride.
Gotta keep feeding the big ghetto voting base. ♠️
Wow Bet the collar counties are glad we have the "Preck" in office. All the money they will be making from those of us who shop out of Crook County.
". . . working with business and labor leaders, our criminal justice stakeholders, our public health team and my fellow elected officials.”
Tony, who are these business leaders, criminal justice stakeholders (what the Fu@k does that even mean, DART. lol) public health officials. Don't worry, we already know who the lame elected officials are. They're as useless as you.
I've come to a decision I haven't taken lightly, YOU "Preck" are the one to go. YOU "Preck" have no clue how to run a county more or less your own home. Please take your "elected" board members and run a flag pole . . .
Good thing I live near DuPage.
Link holders need not pay, they dont pay taxes
There is a built in exemption for grape pop in the bill.
Just another reason to shop in Will and DuPage counties.
I can't wait to leave this crooked thieving State!
Democrats are just plain thieves in Chicago and Crook County and steal citizens money with a smile!
Chicago "Pop" Party... anyone else in.
We meet at midnight to dump all the pops into Lake Michigan
What does the county do with all the money that's made from court fines?
Is there a Democrat out there who can manage a budget without having the only method being raising taxes. How about having the shitheads pay their medical bills when they get shot, if they don't pay deduct it from their Link card.
I already buy gas and smokes outside of crook county, I am thinking I may as well do my grocery shopping also while in Will or Dupage county.
But she said she is getting rid of a few hundred ghost jobs too so that will ease the pain. Balanced budgets should be a law. Taxation just to keep your bloated budget should be illegal.
I wouldn't be surprised if by 2020 we have a 11.5% or 12% sales tax. That's the one that pisses me off the most.
When someone is on LINK you do not pay tax.
So it will not effect them one bit.
It will only hurt the people not on LINK or any type of assistance.
The only taxpayers who will be left in Chicago will be City employees and others who couldn't or wouldn't leave, I certainly hope they enjoy what they created by voting democrat.
So we've given up on the "it's for the kids" mantra. Now it's all about making us healthy. And this is from an anti Stroger tax candidate that we thought would do the right thing? The only thing that the County attempts to provide is the criminal justice system which will become even more screwed up when Kimisha (aka Kim) Foxx takes over.
Retired .38 spl +P
Prophets of Pop Culture, Episode 1431 . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNDYArDUgSg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Cabelas made a huge mistake putting a store in Hoffman Estates,They have the new bullit tax,I bought a 16 dollar box of bullets and it had 4 dollars of Cook County bullit tax,Go 10 miles North and gas prices drop 30 cents and tax is 7%.
Looks like Indiana looks better for Gas, Cigarettes ,soda, beer,water... Hey might as well do all your shopping In DuPage County or Indiana
Anonymous said...
I carry a cooler in the trunk with water , pop, energy drinks purchased, to benefit my bottom line ,out of the county. Fuck cook county ! I quit purchasing fuel here years ago . It requires a little bit of planning but it feels so good !
10/14/2016 12:42:00 AM
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Darien Has a Jewel... Downers Grove also 25 mins from Garcia Ridge
I gots to me me some grape nehi asap. I don't got no car to get out to Dupage County.
They should tax Preckwinkle's looks..institute an "ugly tax" and the budget deficit will be solved!
Donald Trump
I remember years go when Crook County raised the cigarette tax in the stated goal that if cigarettes were more expensive people wouldn't smoke as much and be healthier. Two years later William "hog nut's" Beavers at a county board meeting said that the tax revenue on cigarette's was way down and revenue had to be raised elsewhere. Naturally nobody in the media called him or any other members of the Crook County board and their blatant lie.
Beavers also admitted to buying his gas and cigarettes in nearby Indiana too!
God I can't wait to put this sh_thole in my rear view mirror
Well whatta ya know. Who would've guessed that Tony *Periwinkle* ;-) is a Beatles fan. I would have thought Otis Redding, Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters would be more to her liking.
Then again, she IS the 'Taxman'
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Taxman! Cos' I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for (Aahh Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more (Aahh Mr. Heath)
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me. Taxman!
But there is an upside as it could be worse. At least she's not The Walrus. (LOL)
Even if they half ass tried to cut waste in Illinois and county gubnet we would be getting a tax cut. Fuck Prickwankle. Any wonder so many people are leaving this state. No one left to keep the lights on. Detroit is here.
Does this mean they're going to eliminate the water-bottle tax in Chicago? Not sure, but isn't there already a soda tax in Chicago ? (I don't drink soda - I already stick to water at restaurants/etc. as a personal choice).
They also want to tax the plastic bags. Is there anything left to tax? Shhh, if so don't say anything cuz before you know it, they'll tax us on that too!
Fop , residency now !! We want out . We want tax freedom .we want to be able to save and create wealth..
Lets blame Trump like this idiot who quit second city:
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2016/10/13/another-second-city-cast-member-quits-after-offensive-audiences/
The train is totally off the rails now! Bet Trump sunk the Titanic and the Eastland disaster here!
At some point, hopefully Nov 8th, we, as a nation, are going to have to acknowledge that spending more is not working. eventually the teat will stop giving out milk and all those hungry babies will look to their neighbors for help. It's going to be chaos if things aren't changed.
This tax is just more racism against society in order to maintain a voter base.
And the ammo tax,.
Ah, a variation on the old Illinois theme:
"Don't tax me. Don't tax thee. Tax that man who sips iced tea."
What is it with these leftists (Preckwinkle, Michael Bloomberg) and their obsession with soft drinks?
My customary 44 oz Big Gulps will now cost me almost an extra half dollar each. That hurts. But I get some satisfaction knowing that the county is as incompetent in collecting taxes as it is at everything else. The 7-11 guys will simply do what the gas station owners do in Crook Co. -- charge the customers for the tax, but never pass the money on to the county.
So how about dropping the tax on bottled water?
As redundant as county government is, nothing beats the townships for wasting taxpayer money.
Does anyone remember the old play, Urinetown?
hey ssc not a cop but a vet and big fan of the cpd i live in westchester,ill decent town with a decent mayor (italian and retired deputy chief) i give a flying f-ck what toni wants to do all i do is drive west bound on cermack and i buy my gas in pop in dupage county
f-ckyou toni hillary and BO
gotta BYOB y'all.
Red pop - fitty cent.
Purple pop- solid dolla.
Ain't nobody got time for that.
Hillary Clinton (WikiLeak) :
"Food Stamps will help stimulate the economy."
Looks like Hillary is going to double down on Obama as the Food Stamp King...oh S.N.A.P. !
When ever I can, I buy out of Chicago and Cook County. They put so much tax on cigarettes and bring in less money. They are not thinking out of the box but their ASS. Look at the two brilliant aldermen on plastic/paper bags. Wasted money and air.
The Costco at I 94 and Route 60 is 17 minutes from O'Hara is my new place to shop 7% tax And today gas was $215 a gallon
Flee. Chicago is the Titanic all over again.
"Start taxing ALL EBT/SNAP/Food stamp purchases."
10/14/2016 12:50:00 AM
There is only one program, not three. "Food stamps" have not physically existed for ages now.
"Hey, if they got enough money for tattoos, weaves, fingernail art, and 24" Rims,(not to mention guns & ammo) they got enough to put in something into the pot."
Uh, why not tax "tattoos, weaves, fingernail art, and 24" Rims?" These are all unnecessary luxury items.
That way, you're not hurting sick elderly people struggling along on $130/month for food, who didn't drink soda in the first place, and who don't even have a car, let alone "rims."
The truly poor in this country are largely alone, silent, and invisible. Hard enough to get through the day re-using teabags and keeping only one small light on at a time -- and still sliding backwards. There is nothing left to cut back on at home -- and Com Ed is now going to start "peak use billing" for that one light, too.
Poverty is not being "cured," it's being enforced. More than $2,000 in the bank, and people can lose all their food, medical, and other benefits. Not enough to live on, not enough to die on. Individuals fall through the "safety net." You want a crowd to grab all those donated Butterball turkeys down at the Glass Block Cross Church, all those "free school supplies" to throw at each other on the bus.
The show everyone hates is done with sheer strength of numbers. You need 17 vaguely-related people jammed together, lots of chiluns, the men slingin and the women working a little min-wage here, the odd government job there, and then you've got something. Then you see the cars parked on the front lawn and in the back yard, the stolen 66" bigscreens going night and day with the thermostat set at 90 deg. They hit a lick here and you catch them up in Superior, Wisconsin in their cuz' nice three-bedroom Section 8 set up the same way -- always a place to go.
Thus, "The Great Society," fifty years on...
She is doing this she says for the " criminal justice system" is this for a contract to buy more body bags and staff that mortuary? Another shill with absolutely no business in that position like rahm and Barry no clue how to lead go Trump!
Why not a $100 tax on democrat Pols. ever time they lie. The budget would be balanced in 6 months.
Since no one on the cook county board, or the city council has the tax payers in mind at any time isn't this taxation without representation, hmmmmm get the muskets ready me thinks
I live in Crook County but I'm a 10 minute drive from freedom, so I do literally ALL of my shopping in Indiana. I cant remember the last time I spent any money in Crook County outside of home repairs and maintenance. Once I retire i'm moving to IN and will never return to this corrupt ghetto hellhole ever again.
Anonymous said...
Fop , residency now !! We want out . We want tax freedom .we want to be able to save and create wealth..
10/14/2016 01:18:00 PM
Who is your State Rep? Your State Senator? Have you talked to them about sponsoring a bill? Need help from FOP? Call Kevin Kilmer who is in charge of Unit Reps. His number is 312-733-7776.
Gander Mountain in Will County is a quick ride down I-55 and the less tax makes up for the car trip for gas, food and bullets, etc.
Then I load my car up with all my needs out there and then drive back into Crook county and City and they get nothing for taxes from me!
Stupid Politicians know how to push people out of here!
So screw you Rahm and Preckwinkle and ilk and once I retire its see ya for good!
The Jerry the Iceman on the board told Tinny Toni, No taxie on grapie Pop. She be Kool with that. Paper cups are next to be taxed. Exempt if you be a living in a poverty mandated sections of city. That would be 90percent of the city in 5 years.
We pay a tax on water , now soda, Rahm wants a tax on utilities, we pay tax on cell phones , cable, we pay for garbage pick up, tax on gas, cigarettes and I know I'm missing many more. When does this madness end? When do we tell these politicians no more , quit wasting OUR
money! Vote them out!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Costco at I 94 and Route 60 is 17 minutes from O'Hara is my new place to shop 7% tax And today gas was $215 a gallon
10/14/2016 10:02:00 PM
17 minutes? By helicopter.
Target in Bensenville. My new go to place to pick up soda and water. Located just outside of Crook County.
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