Taxpayer Revolt?

Looking more and more like Prickwrinkle and her supporters are going to pay a price:

• Voters could cap the re-election bids of four Cook County commissioners over their support for the sweetened beverage tax, a new poll found.
  
  It’s the latest in a series of We Ask America polls offering a snapshot into the unpopularity of the penny-an-ounce pop tax which took effect on August 2.

The results:

• For Commissioner Luis Arroyo Jr., D-Chicago, of 684 questioned, 53 percent said they were less likely to re-elect him, the poll found. For Commissioner John Daley, of 700 questioned, nearly 67 percent said they wouldn’t vote to re-elect. For Commissioner Stanley Moore, nearly 65 percent, of 712 questioned said they would not support his re-election. And for Commissioner Deborah Sims, of 718 questioned, 54.5 percent said they were less likely to re-elect.

Of course, the commissioners are counting on memories being short. And poll numbers are notoriously fickle - look at "president" Hillary's numbers.

But this voter displeasure runs a bit deeper. We hear that soda sales are down in Cook County somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-to-60%. That isn't the whole story though. Grocery sales are down 9-to-10%.

That's a massive sales tax hit. Anyone with a car and half-a-brain is going out of county for shopping and saving a bunch of money - not just on soda, but groceries, smokes, gas. Prickwrinkle has stepped into a giant pile of shit and it's rubbing off on a lot of other politicians, too.