Overreach
This is a blatant attempt to intimidate parties not to use the Courts to seek redress:
- Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle is suing the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, claiming the one-month delay in implementing the soda tax has caused $17 million in damages.
The penny-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks started Wednesday, adding a penny per ounce to the price of most bottled and fountain drinks in Cook County.
The tax was on hold for a month after a judge granted a temporary restraining order. It was expected to bring in $68 million through the end of 2017. To fill the hole created by the 30-day delay, Preckwinkle ordered 10 percent cuts across the board.
Prickwrinkle isn't going to see anything near her "projected" totals, just like she didn't see anything close to her "expected revenues" from the nickel-per-bullet tax or the $25 gun tax. Taxpayers are rapidly approaching the boiling point and this ought to be a few straws too far.
Wait until they hear that those layoffs in Foxxx's office are over four times what she's admitting to publicly.
Wait until they hear that those layoffs in Foxxx's office are over four times what she's admitting to publicly.
Labels: county, dumb ideas
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
75 Comments:
Guaranteed that the surrounding county's will make more in sugary drink revenue than the cook county tax will bring in.
Cook county government is largely redundant and could be cut by two thirds with little notice by taxpayers. One day the people of cook county will wake up and grow some balls.
People aren't Stupid Pop has a long shelf life,This will flop like the Cigarette tax,I feel bad for Cook County grocery stores.
Wisconsin pop just tastes better sorry crook county.
Countersue.
Federal Court for Violating the Civil Rights of the Merchant Organization and their members.
You can sue her in her professional and PERSONAL roles.
IOW, some of what you win can come out of her personal pocket, and the pockets of anyone stupid enough to back a suit like this.
Stocked up on soda and other drinks before the tax took hold. Refuse to buy more beverages in Crook County. Better to stock up outside Crook County. Fukk Toni Prikwankle!
Typical. Dont cut spending just raise TAXES.Do they ever show where the tax money really goes.
I don't see a reason in paying FUxx peoples... they don't bring anything valid to court which they can win... half of the ASAs in her office should be working for uber
Time for another "BOSTON TEA PARTY" our founding fathers are turning in their graves...actually time to remove/vote these political assholes out of office. This State and it's corrupt politicians County and City. They fuck the working man and they retire millionaires with one or more pensions. Unbelievable!
Every time I purchase my beverages outside of Crook County, I will be emailing my receipt to Taxwinkle as a reminder of the lost revenue not just on the sugary drink tax but also on the portion of tax that would've been collected by the county before the astronomical sugary drink tax was enacted. Watched a kid, probably making minimum wage at his job at Menards, pay .20c tax on the Gatorade he bought to drink on his break, pathetic.
“Habert said he was tired of a 'dysfunctional city and state', the soda tax being the most recent example of that.”
Last straw? Many Cook County residents not too sweet on soda tax
http://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/last-straw-many-cook-county-residents-not-too-sweet-on-the-soda-tax/
rb
I live close to the cook county border!
Do you honestly believe I'm paying any Crook County and City taxes!
Fuck off Toni and Rahm!
The Prick was never too good at math in school,
because the numbers just are not there.
Went to the drive thru, off duty of course and ordered a courtesy cup of water with my meal. No bottled water with Rahms tax and no soda for that walking asshole, Prickwinkle.
Strange how a high school civics teacher who later became the Hyde Park liberal AlderCreature is now throwing a frivolous lawsuit against the Retail Merchants Assn. for merely trying to defend their rights. Prickwrinkle needs a dose of taxpayer reality next year when she seeks reelection. Are the dwindling resources of the State's Atty. Civil Division going to be wasted defending this bully's nonsense or will Her Majesty retain private counsel? Will independent counsel be compensated or work pro bono?
Retired .38 spl +P
I have heard from a couple conservative media shows the suggestion of a "Chicago Soda Party" similar to the Boston Tea Party. Both suggested a mass gathering of fed-up Chicagoans to meet along the Chicago River and pour mass quantities of the outlawed sugar drinks into the already polluted water. If it happens and this city does anything to stop it by means of enforcement it is a sad day. Our brass lets BLM do whatever they want whenever they want but I sadly see them ordering the bike teams and foot guys to strictly enforce "littering" into the water to a bunch of conservatives who were raised correct and don't fight the police. Will be very interesting if it happens to say the least!
That's a lawsuit that will go no where.
And again, look into when the hirings were made... with just enough time to list on a resume & collect UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
There should be a sugary beverage tax, bottled water and plastic bag app like gas buddy...
I don't go 'soda shopping'. I go grocery shopping and occasionally buy soda with my other groceries. It's a slam dunk that any said shopping will NOT be in cook county anymore.
I buy gas in Indiana and groceries....(0) tax on groceries. I love watching Crook County and the city implode. Go ahead Prickwinkle....try taxing yourself out of the shitload of wasteful spending you created. Its not going to work. The hemorrhaging of people fleeing the state of Madiganistan will only get worse.
Has ANYONE seen or investigated the revenue from the gun tax or the bullet tax? Did these taxes produce expected dollars? I bet money they didn't come close. I started buying my guns and ammo in Indiana the day these money grabbing taxes started. How do we find out the truth? We already know that lying bitch Taxwinkle won't tell us.
Suing the association because a JUDGE granted an injunction? Can we sue Toni for wasting our money for suing?
It is actually Foxx suing not Preckwinkle. The States Attorney controls the litigation in the County and decides who to sue.
Word is that Taxwinkle is quietly hiring 225 "agents" to enforce the sugar tax
They will be roving around major highways that have large stores such as Costco just across the county line
"safety checks" will be set up on the cook side and cars will be checked for safety violations and if non taxed sugary drinks happen to be found in vehicles registered in Cook, the items will be confiscated and the driver will be fined
Now I can add 'sweetened drinks' to my shopping list when I go to Hammond to gas up; buy bottle water, and don't pay a bag tax.
Gonna change my driver's license to another state soon and will STILL live in Chicago.
Bought one 20oz pop. $.20 tax paid. Thats all I'll ever pay. Lake county Saturday morning to load up on pop requests for wife and kids. I'll never pay it. Fuck you CC
Am I the last to know this, SCC? Fresh off a clout-disaster promotional scandal, kevin Navarro is making moves to slip into the superintendents job when Eddie gets his transplant by sucking up to none other than Kim Foxx to curry favor with the black politicians. That's right Kevin has a PO from detached services working full time as Foxx's driver because she wants a "real police bodyguard." That's a full salary of a CHICAGO policeman going as a gift to Kimmy who has lots of armed county investigators to protect her. But she wanted to feel real street tough, and dumbo kev is too stupid to know she is not a City elected official. Been going on for months. Oops. Scoop it, slumtimes. A FOIA will prove we've been paying City money that could be manning a beat car since 2 weeks after she took office. Take a civics class dumb dumb Kev.
If i order a rum and coke how much do i pay in sugary drink tax?
Im searching for where the county made cuts in the current budget but cant find any. Instead I found the county has 1500 vacant jobs in the budget that cost taxpayers 70 million to hold those positions even if vacant. Too many places to trim the budget but instead we, the tax payers, are slammed with more taxes. The county will spend 30 million in court cost in an attempt to extort 17 million.
5% in Grundy County - make the drive on principal alone
Yet people keep voting for these fools. I just don't get it.
Remember when Prickwrinkle ran against the tax crazed Stroger? She was saving us from unneeded taxes. Now she makes him look like a fiscal conservative! Funny how things change...
Prickwinkie doesn't live in cook county, doesn't affect her at all.
Anonymous said...
Cook county government is largely redundant and could be cut by two thirds with little notice by taxpayers. One day the people of cook county will wake up and grow some balls.
8/04/2017 12:24:00 AM
Absolutely correct. A few years ago the County actually had a study done regarding this but have never released the study. County employees are paid over their private sector counterparts from 35 to 100 %, many jobs are unnecessary and many people do not work in their job description. As I recall the Chief Judge of the court system hired his two daughters to manage the jury at the Civic Center and they are paid $95,000 each, Just one example
Using people for exercising their rights? Toni Bullwinkle has gone too far.
Just reading a Tax Foundation article on the Philly soda tax experiment "Soda sales in Philadelphia have also declined since the tax went into effect at the beginning of 2017, threatening the long-run sustainability of the tax. According to some local distributors and retailers, sales have declined by nearly 50 percent." The same thing will happen in Chicago. Lawsuits, lay offs at Coke and Pepsi and removal of certain products in the Philly stores are also an impact of the tax. Still the talking heads that thought up this idea stand behind the tax.
https://taxfoundation.org/philadelphia-soda-tax-failing/
How much does it cost Cook County taxpayers to pay the cost of health care for the illegals? How about those who live outside cook county and come to St Rodger for health care? How many collar county hospitals tell the indigent to go to "cook county" ? Any media investigative reporter have the balls to get the financials on that and report it in their "non-biased" rag? Surely not everyone gives a cook county address. Do we send the other counties "the itemized bill" for the cost of their constituents ?
So are these layoffs in the SA's Office the reason why Cook County is no longer prosecuting 6-303's? Giving Joe Shithead a free pass to drive? I hope the first family of the victim killed by a person with a suspended driver's license sues and gets $$$$$$$$.
Cook County ASA's get their jobs by clout.
They lose them by clout.
LOL!
Loon Cook county democrats think taxpayers will happily cough 40-80 % soda price increases for taxes... for soda bought in Crook county ..LOL fool,useless Commissioners
Cook county ,Chicago ,Illinois happily laying on more tax increases for working middle class citizens
Shame on area stores merely saying taxes on soda will be added at checkout ,without stating total price on shelf for each soda taxed product.
No matter.. DuPage County ,Lake County ,Indiana down 55 ,294.. all within 30-40 minutes of 08 ..That means large losses for area stores .. go complain to Toni Taxwinkle stronger Jr .
Had enough yet?
Golf Tango Foxtrot Oscar
as everyone knows that every time a tax is made, pay raises for everyone first.
Even her husband ran away from her, this girl toni is totally without a brain, maybe the scarecrow from wizard of oz could help her!
Just saw her undercover out to lunch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShnfNNVXxA
Chuey Garcia was on WCPT as a guest on the Ben Joravsky show. He said the tax is needed to fill the hole in the budget and that the health benefits are a lesser concern. A few minutes later he admitted that pop consumption will decrease, as will the revenue from the tax. I wanted to yell at the radio and ask the dumbfuck how he will fill that gap after tax revenue decreases. For these Democrats it certainly won't be by cutting spending!!!!!!!!!!
Remember this is for health benefits only, not to make money. By the way this tax does not apply to link card or food stamp buying. I guess that those folk don't have to be healthy
Yet here she is now wasting even more taxpayers money on a stupid lawsuit. These Democrats just can not figure it out.
Toni wasn't smart enough to come with this lawsuit on her own, had to be one of her staff lawyers.
To show how dumb the people are in Crook County when they go out to eat, whether in or take out, the establishment fills the glass/cup up with ice and then pours drink in, thereafter charging the tax based on the size of the drink ordered not the volume that was poured, the idiots dutifully pay the tax not knowing they got ripped. And when they eat out and order a glass/cup without ice thinking that now they will get more volume, than with ice, possibly true but there is also no indicator on the inside or outside of the glass/cup that the volume equals the sixe of the drink ordered. So for a 32 oz. extra large drink at your favorite burger place, you pay tax on the 32 oz. drink not realizing it could be 31 or 30 oz actually. Couple pennies in one case doesn't matter. However, multiple that same scenario millions of times in a year and customers are being short changed while playing the full amount of the taxed drink whether the volume of the drink matches the order or not. Seems this should be a basis for a law suit.
Was at Cabela's the other day with a friend and as usually I always get a soda pop on the way out to have on the trip back home. Friend says, we are in Crook County. I said thanks, good call. I put the bottle back in the case. Full Crook County.
Went to the grocery store with the wife and reminded her that we don't buy water or soda pop anymore in Crook County. I will travel to DuPage or Lake counties for those items or get them in Wisconsin and while stocking up on taxed items I will also stock up on the usual food items and pay a lesser sales tax as an added benefit. Fuck Rahm and fuck Toni.
I'm on the NW side - where is the nearest Du Page County CostCo??
Who needs to drive, if you don't work for the city, aw hell even if you do, buy a house in Indiana, Wisconsin or even parts north, west and south of crook county. Make sure you keep your voting address in the city/county, so you can show your appreciation for these thieving hacks that have destroyed the city, county, state.
Better idea, stop drinking soda, bottled water, smoking, alcohol, you get the idea.....
The politicians concerned with your health will tax the dirty air you breath because it's bad for you. LOL
Lastly, how about the gas prices in the downtown area...Oh I forgot summer blend.....How come its up over $3 for regular and still around $2 in collar counties....
Does anybody look out for the little guy anymore?
20 minute ride outside this piece of shit County for pop, cigs, and food!!! A big fuck you to Prenkdinkle
Bought forty dollars of soft drinks yesterday in Will county.
So you grab a beef or hot dog at your favorite place, maybe fries and a Coke.
Thats maybe what-a 16oz cup...?
Order it without ice...almost half of that drink served to you is ice (water) and it comes out of the machine cold already!
She said we are broke. Layoffs etc. need the tax money. And now WE pay to file this frivolous suit. What kind of mad world are we living in where politicians can spend OUR money on any damn thing they want ? We should have to,OK this crap. These leeches get in office strictly on corrupt party lines . These assholes are supposed to do the peoples business. Not push whatever agenda THEY like. So tired of this crap. Get the war started already. It cant get any worse.
Crook County revenue plan: If the one pinny an ounce doesn't work, we'll make it two pinnies.
PorkWinkle already put the brakes on staffing budget rollbacks and cuts now that she got that Share the Wealth sugar pop tax.
(It would not be a stretch to say more than 50% of the Cook County population holds a LINK EBT)
And tell me this, if I sell my residence at a LOSS due to the collapsing Chicago, Cook County financial decline, rising crime and overall undesirability, do I get to sue the local gov'mint to make up the difference and will they pay?
Or is that reserved only for Democrat Daley cronies?
When do Cook County sheriffs start patrolling the borders looking for residents bootlegging pop?
Looks like the lawsuit she filed violates Illinois law http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2937&ChapterID=56
Wow break the backs of middle class with taxes and still has the audacity to exhibit greed by going after anyone who challenges.
The most interesting man said....
" I don't always drink soda, but when I do I'll purchase it outside Cook County"
Lars Pilsen
Peckerwinle will not see a dime. If by chance a crooked county jury found for Peckerwinkle they can just file bankruptcy. They should also ask for change of venue seeing as the courts are employees of Peckerwinkle.
If the court ruled this tax was unconstitutional,could the merchants sue Cook County for the time and labored involved for updating their POS systems prior to the ruling?
Hey Preckwinkle... you are a real piece of shit... give your husband back his last name since He divorced you. Wtf... that how it goes in the real world.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Strange how a high school civics teacher who later became the Hyde Park liberal AlderCreature is now throwing a frivolous lawsuit against the Retail Merchants Assn. for merely trying to defend their rights. Prickwrinkle needs a dose of taxpayer reality next year when she seeks reelection. Are the dwindling resources of the State's Atty. Civil Division going to be wasted defending this bully's nonsense or will Her Majesty retain private counsel? Will independent counsel be compensated or work pro bono?
Retired .38 spl +P
8/04/2017 03:42:00 AM
Toni and her political masters in the Illinois Democrat Machine know that most of the electorate doesn't even notice the stupid, unethical and unlawful shit they do every single day. Something like a Soda Tax might just get through the voters shield of ignorance. In this case, they are hoping they will forget before the next primary election. With the idiots that reflexively voted Democrat, they may just be correct.
toni taxwinkle can go scratch .. a suburb Southwest large grocery store has seen their cook county soda sales drop 35 % in 1st 2 days of soda tax.. 42 % down vs last 4 weeks ..
$200 million soda tax from middle class taxpayers ?? Good luck ... dimms county commissioners
Anonymous said...
I'm on the NW side - where is the nearest Du Page County CostCo??
8/04/2017 10:14:00 AM
Oakbrook 22nd set off I-88 just past oakbrook mall
Just came back from Indiana. Paid 2.50 for a 6 pack of coke (bought 8, saved $8. Bought 4 cases of 16 oz water @ 2.50 each, saved 9.60 in bottle tax. Groceries were $150, tax was $1.72. They double plastic bagged everything, 24 bags at .07= 1.68. Stopped @ Cabelas, bought 100 rounds, saved 5.00. Filled my car w/12 gal of gas, saved .40 per gal = $4.80. Bought 2 cartons of cigs, saved $14. Bought some booze, saved $8.00. Went to Target, Walmart, and Meijer saved $15 on tax for my kids clothed, 7% in Indiana, 11% in Chicago. Had a nice meal with friendly wait staff. Didn't come across a pan handler until I came to Chicago. Stopped at the casino, saw some gambler with link card in their wallet. Had a nice, quiet time and saved about $50.00. Oh, I had to set my alarm when I got home to avoid home invasions. SWEET HOME CHICAGO, LAND OF THE FREE!!! And sanctuary city for MANY.
Anonymous said...
So you grab a beef or hot dog at your favorite place, maybe fries and a Coke.
Thats maybe what-a 16oz cup...?
Order it without ice...almost half of that drink served to you is ice (water) and it comes out of the machine cold already!
8/04/2017 10:34:00 AM
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Anyone who has worked in a restaurant will tell you avoid the ice.. poor equipment conditions ,bacteria all over place ,dirty ice containers , dirty hands handling ice..roaches love being around ice machines... FWIW
Is there any truth to the rumor that Preckwinkle
sent a bust of Barack Obama back to the White House
and it came back all smashed up in a box addressed to
Rahm Emanuel?
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Wow break the backs of middle class with taxes and still has the audacity to exhibit greed by going after anyone who challenges.
If the tax is ruled unconstitutional the retailers association should sue her for passing an uncinstutuonal tax and ask for all the lawyers fees and expenses they incurred
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Word is that Taxwinkle is quietly hiring 225 "agents" to enforce the sugar tax
They will be roving around major highways that have large stores such as Costco just across the county line
"safety checks" will be set up on the cook side and cars will be checked for safety violations and if non taxed sugary drinks happen to be found in vehicles registered in Cook, the items will be confiscated and the driver will be fined
*******
Real word is...you're an idiot!
If you vote for those pieces of shit you are a mindless fuck. And deserve Nothing
Don't worry my family will be gone from this fucking crook county and shit state!!!!
And does ice in a mixed drink or in a fountain drink lower the amount of "sugary" drink, thus lowering the taxable amount of my rum & DIET coke?
If i order a rum and coke how much do i pay in sugary drink tax?
8/04/2017 07:08:00 AM
How did Prickwinkle allow the hole in the budget in the first place? Sure the money is needed, but what was the cause of this financial fuckup?
RightisRight said...
Chuey Garcia was on WCPT as a guest on the Ben Joravsky show. He said the tax is needed to fill the hole in the budget and that the health benefits are a lesser concern.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Word is that Taxwinkle is quietly hiring 225 "agents" to enforce the sugar tax
They will be roving around major highways that have large stores such as Costco just across the county line
"safety checks" will be set up on the cook side and cars will be checked for safety violations and if non taxed sugary drinks happen to be found in vehicles registered in Cook, the items will be confiscated and the driver will be fined
*******
Real word is...you're an idiot!
Have you ever heard of probable cause and needing a reason to check the trunk
I do all my shopping in Indiana. May as well move there. I'm looking. Wish I had done it years ago. I'm almost too old to move now, but I'm gonna try.
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