Prickwrinkle Surrenders
- Cook County has withdrawn its legal motion to exact $17 million from retailers that sued the county over its controversial sweetened beverage tax, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's spokesman said Tuesday.
The move came days after Preckwinkle defended the effort during a WGN-AM 720 radio interview. The criticism was mounting, though, with newspaper editorial boards bashing the effort and county commissioners looking to curtail her authority to sue for damages in such cases.
The political backlash is only growing. Sales across the county - from gas to groceries to fast food establishments - are down significant percentages already according to everything we've read, been e-mailed, told in conversations. This was a "tax too far" by all measures. And her overreach via a lawsuit is going to reverberate for a long time - possibly up until election season.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Gotta love this pile of bullshit fed to everyone from this spokes-yoyo. Amazes me that people are still falling for this bullshit. How about cutting your expenses....and not pretending its for critical health and safety. Lying bastards. How the hell do you find yourself in a position of spending money without knowing if it is going to be there ? How can these people even be in office ?
"It was always our intention to protect the revenue that finances the county's critical public health and public safety services," Shuftan said in a statement.
Give me a courtesy cup of water, I'm sorry your profits go down, Mr. Restaurateur, but I'm not paying that damn tax.
Richard Boykin, a Cook County Board member, is thinking about running for County Board President. He voted against the tax, said it wasn't about health but was about revenue, and the revenue expected from the tax could have been made from budget cuts and job vacancy eliminations. Here's a quote from a Sun Times story on their site right now:
"...“It was a bad tax from its inception. We ought to repeal it right away,” he said. “She has continued to make mistake after mistake on this tax. It was her decision to sue [the Illinois Retail Merchants Association].
“It was a vindictive action carried out on the taxpayers’ credit card. It was as if she was the queen and she made an edict. It borders on abuse of power,” he said. ..."
I knew nothing of this man before this tax issue went to court, but I'd vote for this guy in a heartbeat over her.
I drove to the Costco in Mettawa, IL on Rte. 60 and I- 294 today. We drink Gatorade and Vitamin Water, four cases would have been an additional $16 in Cook County, plus an additional $8 for two cases of pop. It wasn't a bad drive, we ended up spending almost $400 in groceries and household items. Now Cook County gets none of that tax.
National news carried some of the 'backlash' story yesterday.
Oops.
Yesterday I talked to the Coke driver at Jewel in Mt Greenwood and asked her if the the tax is hurting business. She told me that on average that particular Jewel would receive three pallets of Coke products and on that day they only needed 1, thats a 66% reduction. She also mentioned that this is occurring at all stores on her route.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170808/BLOGS02/170809864/cook-county-pop-tax-propels-potential-challenger-to-preckwinkle
Is it Boykin time?
SCC, are you getting royalties from Kass for his use of the name Taxwinkle, which I believe was first uttered on this site?
Are you throwing a party... Look at the Savings, Lake County has No Liquor Tax Add those numbers Up.7% Tax and 1.75% on food,And Gas is 40 cents a gallon less,Can you drive away from Tony Taxwinkle and Save Save Save.
No justice, no peas
Toni's the one you got to please
Taught by Jesse Jackson
She learned the way to taxin
She withdrew the motion
So no commotion
But for a contribution
She won't seek retribution
The Democratic Party is so grand
Suffocating everyone in the sand
Rham is doing his best to change the subject.., if that don't work, he will fire a few cops or bad apples... complain about something the asshole
“...sweetened beverage tax, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's spokesman said Tuesday.”
All this time Preckwinkle's sold it as a “sugary drink tax,” with the media going along with the lie. Why the sudden change?
rb
My guess? Somebody's lawyer got a call from the Retailer Association lawyers. Their opening ask was probably a multiple of the $17.5 Million Prickwinkle suit. Juries, even Chicago Juries will like Civil Rights suits against a government bully like Toni. Especially a tone deaf bully that raised the cost of their soda pop.
They didn't just quietly withdraw the suit, they publicly folded.
Sounds like the Democrats realized just how fascist they were?
It will escape them until the city/county building is burning. The people will riseup one day. It makes me sad that it wasn't first or second amendment violations but sweet drinks that lit the fuse.
I talked with a Jewel Store manager on my beat, the Jewel manager said store sales are down 40% across the store, since the tax started.
Jewel manager told me, he may have to layoff staff, to meet his store sales target, if the trend of lower store sales continue because of taxes!
One longtime customer told the Jewel manager that it was cheaper to drive to Indiana to shop than stay in Chicago\Cook County!
Many people are thinking the same thing in the real world!
This tax is a real timebomb on store sales!
Chicago better start planning on more empty stores and people unemployed!
National radio states beer is less expensive
in Chicago than soft drinks. Thousands of
fourth graders turn to the hard stuff. AA
turning angry parents away. Protesters
chant "what have you done to my child?"
Chicago and Philly put Pepsi employees
on the unemployment line. Tesla sales
drop.
I had the privilege of paying the "sweetened beverage tax" on an unsweetened cup of iced tea yesterday. The cashiers and the retail food establishments do not know which beverages are subject to the unfathomable tax, so everybody is being clipped by Bullwinkle.
Bet your ass that Toni-y in the next few months find a bull shit reason to kill the tax on pop ! Then hit the booze with a tax. She is a goner and knows she fuck up ed. She will get another pension and go live in DC joining Barry and other commie'.
but the ones who don't pay the tax will elect her mayor.
Live in Garfield Ridge, 20 minute drive to Super WalMart in Darien. DuPage County. Saved on soda tax, sales tax. On a Tuesday afternoon the beverage aisle was nearly empty of product! At least a dozen customers at registers with carts filled with only sugary beverages.
Why is Foxx getting a complete pass on this? It is her lawyers that represent the County. Foxx is the one that filed the vindictive motion. Proof that she is there to do Taxwinkle's bidding. No mention of this anywhere.
We are now shopping in Will County......no plastic bag tax, no plastic water bottle tax & no sugary drink tax. It's worth the drive. Time to leave Chicago & Cook County.
Short drive to Costco in Bolingbrook yesterday from the west end of 008 to pick up groceries including some cases of soda and Gatoraid (already going that direction to see family on my day off). I couldn't believe how soda was flying off the shelf out there. I saved over 7 bucks in taxes. Comrad Prickwinkle doesn't get it that people can make a short drive to save lots of money on these Crook County taxes. Oh, and I stocked up on some on sale ammo at Bass Pro and bought gas too while out there (no ammo tax in Will County). Heading to Indiana today to see family also and once again picking up more ammo and buying gas!
Is she had any business sense, she would have known how to run the County Government in a financially viable manner. This means she wouldn't have needed this tax. If she had any business sense, she would have known what the repercussions of this tax would be. If she had any political sense she'd be adding up how much she's gonna be able to collect from all her pensions. Eventually there will be a price to pay at the polls.
She can't have this lawsuit hanging around during election season. Only reason she dropped it.
To the people who think that this Boykin guy is all that and a bag of chips, just make sure you do your homework. He can be right about one thing and wrong about a lot of other important things.
He has worked for some shady characters.
http://richardrboykin.com/meet-the-commissioner/
Anarchy will follow.
As if it matters come election time. The machine will just run out another tax and spend liberal if she's in real trouble and the moronic cook county voters will elect them. Look, these are the same people who elected Todd Stroger. If you have any faith in them, you might have a touch of dementia.
Purchased a pack of Gatorade at Walmart and asked the cashier what the tax was costing me, it was $1.98 or just say $2.00 for a $4.65 purchase. I didn't buy the item and the cashier said a lot of people when they hear what the tax is costing, they don't buy the beverage. Will County here I come..........
It's not only Prickwinkle, lets look at the entire Cook Cunty Board. They voted for her proposal and now they will have to pay the price at the Polls.
Funny thing is, like the two main newspapers in this "welcoming" town and everything that is taxed thru the roof, I find that we can live without it! Semi annual trips to Indiana to pay respects to parents graves usually return home with trunks loaded with everything from ammo to full tanks of gas!
I think I have a solution I would like to offer Taxwinkle. Build a big wall around the county. Every vehicle entering the county would be searched and if found to contain untaxed ciggy butts or pop, the occupants would be sent to re-education camps for an indefinite period of time. Illegal immigrants of course would get a pass.
Hopefully this is just the boulder needed to bury any chance of hers to run for mayor.
Yes this will be wonderful grocery store profits plummet and therefore close several locations. And gues where those locations will be first? You got the less profitable stores will be south side west side. Then we'll hear the "food desert" bs. Hopefully the corporations throw some money behind a candidate that promises to repeal the tax. Costco Lake County here I come.
Just a civilian here, but I support police officers 100%. Content of the class varies from one class to another? Could this be deliberate, to sow seeds of confusion and to divide the police? Don't know how realistic this is, but it appears to me that the FOP needs to protect its members by putting together its own class. Something that helps cops defend themselves (as much as possible), to minimize the casualties during this war on the police. Not a physical class, of course, but maybe something online or downloadable. Something that details every step of your self-defense. Godspeed, men and women in blue. Decent civilians are still counting on you, but we do understand your situation. At this point, I agree with Stay Fetal.
8/08/2017 12:38:00 PM
And this is what I still don't understand about this tax. I went into a Walgreens and was told the same thing by a worker there. My wife likes to drink the unsweetened iced tea by pure leaf. So I walked out buying nothing. Told her from now on we give these democrats nothing more. We give them enough of our money. All our grocery shopping is in Dupage from now on. Just have to plan a little better is all.
We're not big pop drinkers to begin with. But still found ourselves drinking more water lately.
Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!
"Sales across the county - from gas to groceries to fast food establishments - are down significant percentages already according to everything we've read, been e-mailed, told in conversations."
Anybody with a functioning brain saw this coming.
The Jewel at 103rd and Kedzie, which is in Chicago, may have to close because of the plastic bag fiasco and now the sugar tax.
Or maybe, just maybe, the attorney of record for the County woke up and realized that this thing had SLAPP Suit written all over it, that he or she would certainly face discipline or disbarment from the ARDC and told Pricktinkle either we withdraw the case or I quit.
Certainly isn't worth losing your law license over something like this.
Pricktinkle scans the room and asks "Anyone else want to be the new lead attorney on the case?". After 20 seconds of dead silence and seeing all heads staring down at their smartphones, she folded.
Call the next case. Not a cop.
Call it the ice pick tax. As in the ice pick to the back of the head like in goodfellas. Mo just wouldn't shut up
Yes I will be visiting the Costco in Lake County off 90/94 as well. Spend $500 to $1000 there every month. While I'm out their I may have lunch and visit some other retail establishments. Of course I'll fill up the tank. Maybe even check out some real estate and relocate in the very near future. These politicians need to learn that for every action Sancutary City soda tax there will be a reaction. They may keep the south loop, west loop, Lincoln park, the Gold Coast and some other trendy neighborhoods but they're going to loose the northwest side and south west sides. That's a lot of square miles to police. Young cops and fireman can share a rental and go out the the house on the weekends. Let's push for 10/12 hour days and work 3/4 days a week.
If she Really Lost $17 million dollars; then she had an OBLIGATION to make an effort to retrieve that lost revenue. But the Reality is that she is full of shit and cannot prove that the tax will bring in $17 million a month. Like Rahm's bag tax, the projections are inflated. And every time I have gone shopping in recent weeks, I note almost everyone brings their own bags to avoid Rahm's tax. Some who forget their bags simply drive their carts to their cars and unload there, rather than pay Rahm's tax. And everyday, I see more and more storefronts for rent or lease. Small businesses are being driven out of the City at an alarming rate, and my observations are from the relatively secure North side. Stay Safe & Do Nothing! Baby "G"
Boykin? cook county voters are stupid enough to vote in a democrat to replace a democrat.
The Intolerable Acts
Just don't buy any of the products that are being taxed. Make a trip into a neighboring county or Indiana once a month or longer and stock up. Don't count on brain dead voters to get rid of Prickwankle or any other Democrat from the county board.
There's a lot of groundwork to be made up leading to March 2018.
Word is that Cook Co Commissioner Boykin is mulling a challenge to Two Pension PorkWinkle and he's just the first.
Boykin brought up her sugar pop tax on non-sugar beverages, lay-offs, the $17mil suit (she just dropped) as examples of her knee jerk decisions and mean spirit (Dem buzz word).
Chewy Jesus could be the spoiler if he jumps in on County Bd President election.
Who knows, it might even prod Chewy & Porks to reconsider being a Rahm challenger.
Very expensive election coming with just 7 months to stockpile cash just for the primary.
Revolt may be coming again to the Kook Kounty Board just like the overthrow of Toad Stooger.
And Rotten Rahm hopes for a County power fight to keep him from a 2019 runoff.
Lots of photos circulating with people on welfare buying cart loads of cases of pop. They don't have to pay the tax but they are loading up to sell them and make money. Politicians are beyond stupid.
Whether Taxwinkle will admit it or not she has stepped on her tit with this whole farce.
The only thing we can do is vote out every asshole in office. Then, if they do not do what we want them to, as voters, vote those assholes out as well.
Anonymous said...
I drove to the Costco in Mettawa, IL on Rte. 60 and I- 294 today. We drink Gatorade and Vitamin Water, four cases would have been an additional $16 in Cook County, plus an additional $8 for two cases of pop. It wasn't a bad drive, we ended up spending almost $400 in groceries and household items. Now Cook County gets none of that tax.
8/09/2017 12:22:00 AM
I took a starving college student to lunch yesterday in Lake County. After lunch, I stopped to buy a couple of cases of beverages that are taxed in Cook county now. And I also spent about $125 for other items. Free bags. No beverage tax.
The cashier told me 'you wouldn't believe how many Chicago people are shopping here now and telling me the same thing'.
Read Neil Steinberg's column in Sun Times today. Great article about the soda tax. He was charged the tax for unsweetened Dasani water Even after he got an email and proof from the county that there was no tax due, they wouldn't give him a refund. Said he should save his receipts. There is no uniform enforcement of the tax and every store is administering it as they please, in most cases taxing all liquids. Walgreens already has been sued for charging the tax on liquids not covered. Toni will get her 200 million next year. The problem is half of the money will have come from products that weren't supposed to be taxed
http://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/steinberg-talk-about-unsweet-grocery-stores-misapply-new-county-tax/
Toni Stroger prickwinkle's Crook County ,IL soda tax gets national notice on Fox Business cable news on Wednesday Morning, and later on Fox with Varney.
Nothing like to get more tourists to visit Chicago.. showing the taxes they will be nickel and dimed
Democrat buffoons ..Nation laughing at Dimm assholes ..no Mas taxes Corrupt
Hopefully it reverberates PAST election season and all the fucks that voted for this abomination are voted right out of office...
Anonymous said...
My guess? Somebody's lawyer got a call from the Retailer Association lawyers. Their opening ask was probably a multiple of the $17.5 Million Prickwinkle suit. Juries, even Chicago Juries will like Civil Rights suits against a government bully like Toni. Especially a tone deaf bully that raised the cost of their soda pop.
They didn't just quietly withdraw the suit, they publicly folded.
8/09/2017 01:41:00 AM
SCC posted a few days back that Preckwinkle may have violated state law, namely 735 ILCS 110, the Citizen Participation Act. I pointed out that a violation of state law would have to be adjudicated in state court. How's that gonna work out in Illinois?
Then I mentioned a couple of sections from Title 18 of the US code, 18 USC §241 and §242.
Link for 241: https://www.justice.gov/crt/conspiracy-against-rights
TITLE 18, USC §241
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;...
Link for 242:
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
TITLE 18, USC §242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, ...
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A civil rights lawsuit filed under the two articles mentioned above (18 USC §241 and §242) could result in PRISON TIME for the defendants. This is a golden opportunity to shovel a whole bunch of extra gritty sand in the jockstrap of the Chicago / Cook County / Illinois Machine. The DOJ could take something like this and leverage it towards starting to clean up the whole state.
The admission from Boykin that the suit was retaliatory sure sounds like a conspiracy case could be made. The trick is finding a lawyer who isn't part of the Machine. So . . . hire one from out of state. Illinois currently has reciprocity agreements with 32 other jurisdictions, including all 5 neighboring states.
The civil rights violation occured with the filing of the suit against IRMA. There's blood in the water, and IRMA could really crucify Foxxwinkle in court on this. The damages would be nice, and seeing some of these elected officials pissing themselves every time the phone or doorbell rings would be hysterical, but the REAL meat would be in the leverage available through the plea deals.
Foxx? She's kind of low on the totem pole. She might be able to plead down for a reduced sentence, but what does she really have to offer in return?
Preckwinkle, though . . . that's another story. She probably knows where enough bodies are buried that she could really do some damage if she turned state's evidence.
Remember when Tod Stroger was assured a lifetime job as Cook County Pres until he pissed off everyone, including his base, by raising the sales tax? That's how we ended up with Preckwinkle. Now she has shot herself in the foot with her outrageoous tax and could suffer the same fate. I feel bad for the small businesses on the outskirts of the county who will suffer the most. I now shop in Will County.
I had the privilege of paying the "sweetened beverage tax" on an unsweetened cup of iced tea yesterday. The cashiers and the retail food establishments do not know which beverages are subject to the unfathomable tax, so everybody is being clipped by Bullwinkle.
8/09/2017 03:47:00 AM
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Breaking news had a blurb yesterday about a guy filing a lawsuit against Walgreens for this. Trying to get it class action. Will have to try again to buy unsweet iced tea at Butera on Lawrence. They had it taxed last week. Check your receipts folks !
Typical government "Leader" over reaching. This one is going to fail. I haven't shopped in cook county in years. Only thing I do in Chicago is sleep here and only because im forced to. Have a new job lined up and just let me landlord know im leaving. Time to fill in the paperwork with CPD and im free of this hell.
Anonymous said...
I talked with a Jewel Store manager on my beat, the Jewel manager said store sales are down 40% across the store, since the tax started.
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This does not surprise me at all. It's what I'll call the "tip of the iceberg".
Sure, Prickwinkle might have suspected that some people would cross the county line to save money, and just on general principle. And that is certainly happening.
What they failed to take into account, is that people will not just buy pop and return to Crook County. Oh no, they'll look around and see how much cheaper EVERYTHING is on their shopping list is and buy it there as well. Both to save money and also to save time, since they're there anyway.
Huge economic blow to Cook County.
Call the next case. Not a cop.
President The Donald called her and warned her not to pursue that suit. He has much more in store for her and the rest of the Sanctuary City criminals.
Was shopping at Jewel this morning and couldn't help but notice that the soda aisle was FULL. Shelves stocked to the brim and nothing moving. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmm. Gee, I wonder why nothing's selling?!?!
Doesn't Cook County end at the lakefront? Could you put a storefront on a barge and leave it docked to avoid paying Cook County taxes?
Anonymous said...
Whether Taxwinkle will admit it or not she has stepped on her tit with this whole farce.
8/09/2017 11:31:00 AM
NYAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
😂😝😜😆
Sir-Ma'am Prickwrinkle has some big
m/fing feet too, so the very notion of Sir-Ma'am
inelegantly stumbling and trodding a teat in
her/his/it's legislative overreach
is the stuff hilarity is made of...
"Pay that tax, peons!
Whoopsie..."
>Stumble-CRUNCH!<
✨"yeeee-OUCH!"💥
😵
Serves you right.
Hack!
after reading this thread it's pretty clear & obvious that the all powerful Rahmista's need to pass laws that make it illegal for anyone who lives in Cook County to purchase AnyThing outside of Cook County....If you IDL is a Cook County address you can be randomly "trunk searched" when entering the Rahmista Jurisdiction & you can be arrested on felony "buying outside of Cook County" charges & fined heavily, very very heavily
You guys will either learn to heel at the Rahmista's side or you will be forced to heel...Your choice but one way or the other you will be brought to heel
Toni thinks she will run for Mayor? If she institutes a 1 cent soda tax---God help what she'd tax us (and 'us' only-not SNAP voters) if she's Mayor...
"Sales across the county - from gas to groceries to fast food establishments - are down significant percentages already according to everything we've read, been e-mailed, told in conversations."
Customers not getting soft drinks at fast food restaurants is a big hit to their bottom line. Because it is not just a significant part of their sales, it is a major part of their profits. Soda is a huge profit item.
If she would have just done the democrat thing and stole from the stupid taxpayers, she'da gotten away with it as usual. But she blew it by wanting to take a cut from businesses. Who does she think she is, obama?
Wife and I went out lunch in Schaumburg and alot people were drinking water and took a pass on the pop.
Nothing like to get more tourists to visit Chicago.. showing the taxes they will be nickel and dimed
Democrat buffoons ..Nation laughing at Dimm assholes ..no Mas taxes Corrupt
8/09/2017 12:19:00 PM
Oh, and beaten, shot, and robbed.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
My guess? Somebody's lawyer got a call from the Retailer Association lawyers. Their opening ask was probably a multiple of the $17.5 Million Prickwinkle suit. Juries, even Chicago Juries will like Civil Rights suits against a government bully like Toni. Especially a tone deaf bully that raised the cost of their soda pop.
They didn't just quietly withdraw the suit, they publicly folded.
8/09/2017 01:41:00 AM
Absolutely. Coca cola does not fuck around and they are a corporate powerhouse. When the big soda companies feel they might take a hit in sales drop they're not gonna sit there and accept it. Piss off retailers and you chip away at everyones profits. Especially by some bullshit tax hike disguised to be implemented for people's health. Link of course was exempt. That's how you know this was bullshit in the first place. Of course it never affected any of preckwinkles constituency so she assumed she was safe.
"Read Neil Steinberg's column in Sun Times today. Great article about the soda tax. He was charged the tax for unsweetened Dasani water Even after he got an email and proof from the county that there was no tax due, "
So l can only assume after that incident, he went home and beat his wife?
The Democrats blame Violence on lack of job's,They are the reason jobs leave illinois.
Preckwinkle's hand picked toady Kim Foxx filed the motion asking for the $17 million in damages. Has no one taken notice of that? The State's Attorney isn't supposed to take orders from Preckwinkle - unless that State's Attorney is Kim Foxx! Foxx could have refused Preckwinkle's directive.
Why is Kim Foxx escaping all scrutiny on this? Preckwinke must go and Foxx should be shown the door along with her!
Anonymous said...
Doesn't Cook County end at the lakefront? Could you put a storefront on a barge and leave it docked to avoid paying Cook County taxes?
8/09/2017 03:41:00 PM
Sheeeeit...
Like they won't resort to piracy?
We and many others would be glad to light the wick
when that garbage scow flying Cook County colors
floats along-side and demands to board...
>Big-Assed Civil War era Dahlgren loaded full
of shit and scrap metal being shoved through
the porthole just when Prickwrinkle's dinghy
is half way over<
To make up for lost revenue, Toni and Rahm are now charging a 7 cents per foot of plastic crime scene tape used tax. It will be paid out if CPDs. 5% raise in next contract
Today it took me 20 minutes to drive from Edison Park to the Lake Forest Costco (Lake County) and then went to the Mariano's in Vernon Hills (5 minutes from Costco). I got gas for $2.34 a gallon and then loaded up on sugary beverages, waters and all my other groceries & apparently on Wednesdays this Mariano's gives double off on any coupons. It was such a nice day.
Cook County democrats have got to be some of the stupidest people ever to hold office.
F*ck you Rahmacide
F*ck you Taxwinkle
Anonymous said...
Yes I will be visiting the Costco in Lake County off 90/94 as well. Spend $500 to $1000 there every month. While I'm out their I may have lunch and visit some other retail establishments. Of course I'll fill up the tank. Maybe even check out some real estate and relocate in the very near future. These politicians need to learn that for every action Sancutary City soda tax there will be a reaction. They may keep the south loop, west loop, Lincoln park, the Gold Coast....
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I live in Lincoln Park and can well afford to pay the tax. But I am now shopping outside the County, just on principle. And I am buying a whole lot more than just pop while I am there.
Two-Pension-Toni, GFY!
They will double down, the state will institute a soda tax to help them save face
A tax too far.
The end of the democrat party in crook county is near.
I live right by will county. Went in to a store in Crook county. Nobody buying soda. Parking lot wasn't full. Asked one of the workers if soda sales were down. She said yes, by 50% at least. Grocery sales were also down. People are buying outside of the county. Be prepared for store closings and Crook county going broke.
Thanks Taxwinkle.
Fox has been receiving large donations from preckwinkles. See illinoisshine.org One was for $250,000.......
Anarchy will follow.
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So true, middle class white people have had it with these crooks who never seen a social program costing millions pass them by.
Just imagine one day/ 24 hours, the hood rats never leave their slum apartment. Lets include the Link for cash $ folks, at the local corner liquor store. $100.00 link charge, get 30 back in cash. Those stores don't stay open selling grape pop. Their shelf' are near empty.But the Lotto is a winner, $50 a draw at 50/50 box straight.
The ghetto never stopped amazing me !!!!
The lawsuit got dropped because they know the class action is GOING to come back at them.
Best part?
Wait until the link card folks find out they won't be part of the settlement CHECKS!
(not realizing they will be for 1.56 but lawyers will get millions)
Are yall starting to see yet that the lawyers set this all up for them to make the millions? The New Ghetto Lottery has been born!
Chicago is finished. Give up the ghost already.
Anonymous said...
The lawsuit got dropped because they know the class action is GOING to come back at them.
Best part?
Wait until the link card folks find out they won't be part of the settlement CHECKS!
(not realizing they will be for 1.56 but lawyers will get millions)
Are yall starting to see yet that the lawyers set this all up for them to make the millions? The New Ghetto Lottery has been born!
8/10/2017 12:07:00 PM
Betcha a Fat Man on Friday that the beverage distributors,
and by proxy the beverage company themselves, have sent a
back-door "Nasty-Gram" to Sir/Ma'am Prickwrinkle...
So now, Sir/Ma'am is desperately trying to figure out
how to save face in this debacle.
She WILL be forced to eat this legislative overreach.
It's only a matter of when.
But don't put it past this broom-riding crone to reach
out to her confreres in the Combine to enact the sugary
drink tax state-wide to offset the Cook County-ans
being free and unencumbered to ensure she gets the well
deserved double-handful of dick-all by buying their
sweetened beverage of choice elsewhere...
>Gadsden Flag<
>Moultrie Flag<
Anonymous lil george said...
To make up for lost revenue, Toni and Rahm are now charging a 7 cents per foot of plastic crime scene tape used tax. It will be paid out if CPDs. 5% raise in next contract
8/09/2017 09:25:00 PM
5%?? You mean total for all 4 years.
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