Here a Tax, There a Tax
Discussions are underway to replace the missing $200 million that Prickwrinkle already spent on next year's County budget. Among the proposals:
- The new plan is to put $100 license fee on bicycles. Got to pay for all bike paths and lanes on streets that clog traffic. Not a bad idea kind of like a user fee. Also planning on a $75 ticket for no helmets. Got to replace the sugar revenue. Toni, is livid feels betrayed. Look out she is about to become very vindictive.
This has been floated before, especially as the cost for bike lanes was revealed (6-digits per mile) and:
- the gas taxes took a hit from all the gas that wasn't being bought by bikers,
- parking fees that dried up,
- parking violations that didn't exist,
- boot fees that can't be collected,
- and traffic violation that couldn't be issued.
We'll probably have bike chases being called off for whatever reasons as riders flee traffic stops.
Labels: county, money questions
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
62 Comments:
So read all about it here and figure what Chicago/Crook county would do... A $1 fine?
HA HA HA.
http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/March-2015/Why-Bicycle-Licensing-Almost-Never-Works/
License for a bike. Fuck you. Only way to fix this is move out.
If it’s the county’s budget, then the sherrifs can chase them. Maybe Finance Guy On A Bike will transfer and do bike stops, pulling over yupsters in Lakeview and bike messengers in the Loop.
In this regard, I must confess, that my Baby "G" Persona, includes frequent Bicycle Riding. Sure I have a nice pick-up truck, (Chgo. Wheel Tax, $200 per year.) but why should I risk having one of those sneaky revenue agents hit me with a parking citation. They covertly drop them off from unmarked vehicles to harass Northside residents, while they would not go near the West or Southside. The Northside is easy pickings, because Northside Residents Pay. I actually saw one of these Revenue Agents ticket a White woman's car as she helped her child load the vehicle in front of a parochial school. So yes, I have been a lawman for most of my life; but when I ride my bike, I become an "Outlaw"! I park where I wish, cut through traffic, swear at drivers, and pay tax to No Government! Though politically we are opposites; I often find myself riding with "Hipsters" and "Millennials", who will never make enough to own a motor vehicle. And unless they develop some form of Denver Boot for bicycles; I SWEAR ON THE HEART OF IRELAND, I WILL NOT PAY A TAX FOR MY BICYCLE, AND CONTINUE TO RIDE WITH THE WIND GOING THROUGH THE FEW HAIRS LEFT ON MY HEAD. (I only wear a helmet, when my wife makes me!) Fuck You Rahm; I WILL NEVER PAY ANY TAX TO RIDE FREE AS THE WIND! YOU OWE US THOSE BIKE PATHS, BECAUSE THEY SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOT PRINTS, UNLIKE YOUR CARAVAN OF GAS GUZZLING SUVs. Signed: "Outlaw Baby "G"
Dog eating dog-- our liberal bike rider friends who don't give 2 fucks or a 12 oz can of sugary soda-- are about to get taxed. I say boost it $250 per bike or $350 for the 3 wheeled monster bikes. And it should be 500 for the yup-ed up Frankenstein bikes that actually 2 bikes chopped up into one.
Government is eating itself people... this is what happens when you try to fuck someone in the ass--- or tax someone in ass. And you failed to do proper business calculus. Government try's to tax everything possible. Again stupid-winkle.. tax hypodermic needles, and drug baggies. Taxes them at 100%. But oh, the dope fiends will start to go green and reuse needles...
How's about this one--- Do NOT tax me!
How do you boot a bike? Plus... why does the bike license cost more than a bike from target? Is Prego-winkle going to implement a bike tax like the soda tax.
I am trying to think of an asshole nickname for her, but her name is so stupid...smh
Me and my wife are retired and on the FOP sponsored Aetna health insurance supplement to Medicare. We just got a letter from Aetna stating that thanks to the affordable care act (OBama Care) we are going to be charged very close to 75.00 a month starting in January to help cover OBama Care for the losers in society this is all possible thanks to the democrates and that idiot Nasty Pelosi. You know the dope that said “you got to pass OBama Care to see what’s in it”.
I will never vote for a ass kissing democrate.
It's not enough for these fucks to enable felonious assailants to prey on the yuppie, now they're gonna give them a targeted poke in their pockets......
Bet they'll move to impose the enforcement of this on the stores, both new and used, who sell bikes......because the hilarity involved in ticketing an active cyclist.......geeeez.....it's like President Trump has said, these dumbasses shit on everyone.......
Here a tax there hoes you job. If you want to keep your jobs better be talking budget cuts and deep management layoffs. If not you gone. Not an idle threat, you saw how the steeple reacted to the ludicrous sugar tax. Once awakened they are going to be hard to satisfy. Tax cuts and budgets are all that is going to save your ass. You have been warned. Power to the people. This is exactly how Trump was elected, the silent majority said enough is enough.
Ok, guys, so $40/year you can "register" your bikes at my Lake Co. bike shop, and ride it like a rental. I'll even throw in a free annual tune up.
I love to bike ride . But if bullwinkle moose charges a $100 fee, I will bike outside crook county.
I favor a $1000 dollar fine on idiots driving while texting or talking on their phones. $400 to the state, $400 to the local municipality and $200 to the cop who nabs them. The beauty part is that you'll probably nab the perp within 5 minutes doing the exact same thing.
Chicago taxed itself into the Taxlight Zone.
This is what happens when you put certain
unqualified people with no financial background
in charge of budget/taxation.
The supreme irony in this is that an economist
at Chicago Booth just won the Nobel Prize in
Economics. Maybe, just maybe he was not
approached because he is a white male and
was widely known for his abilities long before
he was awarded the Nobel.
Reminds me of the refrain to a song from the
1960s: When will they ever learn, when will
they ever learn?
(Oh while you're at it, please add age discrimination
because the guy is over 70 and still working at a
highly regarded university)
Some folk in Chicago money management not
playing with a full deck.
OOPS! I meant a $1000 fine for texting or talking on the phone while driving.
I have a proposal, impeach prechwinkle for gross financial mismanagement of public funds. Until we, the people, begin to hold those we elect to public office accountable for their actions the idiocy will continue.
This made me laugh. First, this won't work, period. Second, why not go after those who run stop signs and red lights, at times I have to hit the brake to save their lives and guess what, they'll swear at you even when it's their fault. They feel like they can do whatever they want because they are riding a bike, So I say go find this a--holes and fine them and maybe you can get a couple bucks here and there.
If the no helmet fine for bicyclists pass, I wonder how Rahm is going to provide helmets for divvy bike riders. Or, will they be an exception to the law?
Bicycle tax? I thought bicycle riding was healthy. Just like the sugar drink tax was supposed to be for getting us healthy? Am I the one confused?
You know what really burns me up!? All these pedestrians with their walking, not helping out the city like Rahmy said we all had to. Why should they get a free walking pass while we the drivers have to pay their share. Just think about all the sidewalks and curb ramps everywhere that benefit them and they don't pay for anything with their walking. There should be a special walking tax maybe a shoe tax and maybe even a walking permit. We could have temporary walking permits for visitors to our city/county and also have senior citizen and student discounts. We could have higher fees for heavy people too or people wearing heavy work boots. And all the sitting too?! What about all that sitting? Park benches are free you know and yet people can just sit on one anywhere for nothing. Maybe LAZ can get in on that deal and get the city some income. Neighborhood parks are one rate then the downtown or lakefront benches cost more to use, just like parking a car.
Earlier this year Oregon imposed a modest $15 tax on the purchase of a new bicycle with a cost of $200 or greater. Don't know much else about the tax, other than to say the Oregon bicycle crowd which LOVES gas taxes, etc., balked at this like no one's business. Good for the goose, good for the gander? Just my $0.02.
- Brad
Then we see this, the NFL anti-police anti-military are getting huge tax breaks, wow they are making billions of dollars and paying the so-called actors millions of dollars this game needs to disappear like the dinosaurs;
Trump goes after Jemele Hill and ESPN, targets NFL 'tax breaks'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/10/trump-goes-after-jemele-hill-and-espn-targets-nfl-tax-breaks.html
Maybe sugar tax girl could go after the teams for millions of dollars of tax revenue! Why do the Illinois State police and other agencies give these overpaid boys police escorts lights and sirens down the expressways so they can play this silly game? Why not charge them thousands of dollars for the service which is illegal anyway? Why not put a tax on every ticket sold say $50 per ticket this would raise a lot of money and also make people realize what a waste of time it is to support people like this!
I agree, after all, there needs to be a finders fee!
Taxation without representation! Our politicians are fukked up.
I've been saying all along. Leave the soda tax. This is a tax we can control. Not everybody drinks or doesn't drink a lot of soda. We also had the option to buy outside of the county. Now race baiter Preckwinkle will find a tax that we can't avoid and will tax us all. Once again we're our own worst enemy.
So, isn’t it ironic that the same person who desperately wanted the tax on sugared drinks “to fight obesity” because it’s all “for the children” now wants to levy a very steep tax on those same “children” if they ride their bikes - which, BTW, fights obesity?
IMHO they can tax all of the sanctimonious Millennials riding their bikes everywhere $500, but leave the kids and the old people alone. We old people are riding our bikes to “fight obesity” and stay healthy and not cost Medicare even more money.
But I already have a bike license. I sent in a box top from Super Sugar Crisp when I was 12. It reads "THUG .357."
Hey, what about texting while bike riding?
Whats that fine?
And that 79.95 bike costing 100 bucks?
Well, cars are worth 250 bucks for scrap but they still run....and it costs that much to buy it and that much again to license register and then insurance too?? You got 500 bucks put out for a 250 dollar junker.
But hey, consider this! Not to many Enclosed in Case troubles with bikes! Lots of uuw charges to file maybe THAT will kick that B plus up to an A!!!
Went to Del Rhea’s Chicken Basket for dinner last night and bought 14 12-packs of DIET soda at neighboring Target, saving $20.16 buying in DuPage County. That was after filling up the RV with gas in Indiana on the way back from a camping trip. An RV which is registered to a suburban address. Probably saved another $20 on the fill up and I for pay no city sticker. The only government entity that made money was the DNR for the campsite and Jessie White back when I got the plate.
In other words, suck it Preckwinkle. The “sugar tax” on sugar free drinks is a total insult. At least push your “it’s for health reasons” lie in a way that is remotely believable. My family as I are all in great shape and hiked many miles over the weekend. We’re not paying for your diabetic hood rat constituents cutting their gin with “orange drink” or pounding grape pop or juice barrels, all purchased on LINK and SNAP and rung up as “diapers” by the filthy Arab corner store ISIS money laundering terrorists. You and your disgusting fat-ass ilk wearing tights with fat rolls busting through, licking the hot sauce off your fingers from the wings that are in the basket of the the electric scooter your fat hood pig asses are breaking (which myself and other taxpayers financed) can kiss my ass.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If it’s the county’s budget, then the sherrifs can chase them. Maybe Finance Guy On A Bike will transfer and do bike stops, pulling over yupsters in Lakeview and bike messengers in the Loop.
10/10/2017 12:23:00 AM
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Finance Guy on a Bike failed the CPD hiring process twice. He is only going after people that may be cops or cop families because he’s bitter.
I'm all for the $100 fee for a bike license plate.
And I'm all for police writing tickets to cyclists who break the bike laws such as riding on the sidewalk. As much as I hate Toni, I would vote for her if she makes this happen - I hate obnoxious cyclists more than Toni.
First, don't say perp.
Then, you can....
Kees me you fool!!!!
$200 Million shortfall will only be the beginning the moment they try to stop me while riding an unlicensed bike without a helmet. I will naturally become so frightened by the big bad police and freek out and ride my bicycle right into oncoming traffic. Upon being struck by a vehicle because of the reckless actions of the police, I will be transported to the hospital where my attorney will be awaiting my arrival. Attention all bottom feeder lawyers: This will be your gravy train.
Rahmacide already going to boost
Cell phones taxes another 36 % ,, He has an extra 3% sales tax on Soda ,, looking to boost that Chicago soda tax to 5% ,,Chicago gas tax another 4 cents ..LOL Chicago democrats again stealing money from Working Middle Class
Wake up... shop outside Crook County ,IL
Blogger Baby"G" said...
In this regard, I must confess, that my Baby "G" Persona, includes frequent Bicycle Riding. Sure I have a nice pick-up truck, (Chgo. Wheel Tax, $200 per year.) but why should I risk having one of those sneaky revenue agents hit me with a parking citation. They covertly drop them off from unmarked vehicles to harass Northside residents, while they would not go near the West or Southside. The Northside is easy pickings, because Northside Residents Pay. I actually saw one of these Revenue Agents ticket a White woman's car as she helped her child load the vehicle in front of a parochial school. So yes, I have been a lawman for most of my life; but when I ride my bike, I become an "Outlaw"! I park where I wish, cut through traffic, swear at drivers, and pay tax to No Government! Though politically we are opposites; I often find myself riding with "Hipsters" and "Millennials", who will never make enough to own a motor vehicle. And unless they develop some form of Denver Boot for bicycles; I SWEAR ON THE HEART OF IRELAND, I WILL NOT PAY A TAX FOR MY BICYCLE, AND CONTINUE TO RIDE WITH THE WIND GOING THROUGH THE FEW HAIRS LEFT ON MY HEAD. (I only wear a helmet, when my wife makes me!) Fuck You Rahm; I WILL NEVER PAY ANY TAX TO RIDE FREE AS THE WIND! YOU OWE US THOSE BIKE PATHS, BECAUSE THEY SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT AND REDUCE OUR CARBON FOOT PRINTS, UNLIKE YOUR CARAVAN OF GAS GUZZLING SUVs. Signed: "Outlaw Baby "G"
10/10/2017 12:29:00
Right on ... Laddy ... Irish no longer with Chicago democrats ..?
Shop outside Cook County.
Taxation is theft. Liberals are the most destructive force on earth. Like a plague of locusts devouring all life in its path. They eat your flesh and suck the marrow from your bones. Then they sell your bones and tax the shit out them. Then they steal the bones back and use them in their satanic rituals.
Try me, I will NEVER pay this. Taxing the most eco friendly (which you assholes tout all day long) form of travel minus walking. I thought Chicago was such a “bike friendly” city.... like any of these dumbass hipsters are going to pay this. SIDENOTE, check out the video of the dude on the bike getting smacked with a drum in wicker park, pretty amazing.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20171009/wicker-park/cyclist-knocked-over-head-with-drum-fight-with-van-driver-video
My truck and bike are never taxed. Registered in another county. Fuck you Chicago political trolls.
If they can't mandate riding a motorcycle with a helmet per the courts, how can they do it to bicycles. On the CCFP property yes, but public streets,no.
Lmfao. And who, pray tell, is going to force me to buy a license for my bikes. Gfy.
So, i don't have to wear a helmet when I ride my Harley, but I do when I ride my Schwinn?
Toni Preckwinkle nicknames:
Taxwinkle
Bullwinkle the Tax Moose
Sugar Queen
Fishlips
Miss Lurch
Rahm and a half
the Democratic Dobermann
Toni Three Pensions (CPS, City Council, Cook County)
Grumpy Old Menopause
---Mike the cityworker
Bikers gotta pay...there's no one left to tax!
You tell 'em Baby G!
I can picture you now riding your Schwinn Stingray
bike with the Banana Seat and High Back Sissy Bar,
you know, the one with the Gear Shift and round knob
on the crossbar. In the summer, you're wearing your
red deck pants (inspired by Gilligan's Island), and in
the winter Levi's Blue Jeans (made in the USA) along
with earmuffs and black leather rabbit fur lined gloves.
I can almost hear the Neil Young song "Long May You
Run."
May God bless you, brother.
Hey, how about bonuses for POs who write movers for jerks on bikes? That'll raise some cash.
How many times have pedestrians and motorists been hurt or harassed by the entitled bikerati, running red lights and stops signs like the privileged twits they are? Saw a rich jerk nearly take out a baby carriage near the lake last weekend...he never stopped or even looked back.
Wait till you get a democratic governor and he/they pass the nuclear option. Taxing pensions. Everyone will say "we'll move". Most won't, because they've been settled for 50 years.
Wow ...Cook County Finance committee Today , trotted out elected Cook County office holders for testimony, saying they can, will cut 12 % of dept budget in place of a soda tax
They Cut off Queen Sugar at her knees .. Chewy in 2018, for Crook County president ?
Wgn ,Fox both lying ..saying Crook County collected 16 Million $$ in soda taxes in August
Riding a bike w/out a helmet? Sounds like tact arrests will go up once they figure a way to finagle a way to long form them!
looks like old goofy former city clerk Susie Mendoza (d)herbie is screwing up the state of Illinois next! These democrats are everything wrong with this country, look at breaking
news President Trump is the war room at this moment meeting with military generals about dealing with that punk from north korea! Our President now has to take care of the mess put upon the American people by the payoff king and quenn hillary,bill and barry! Gee the people rahm worked for no wonder Chicago is going to shit due to his training!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/apnewsbreak-billions-illinois-bills-not-sent-payment-050913690--election.html
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/651337/North-Korea-War-Nuclear-US-Missile-Donald-Trump-Kim-Jong-un-General-Mattis-Rex-Tillerson
Susie:SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois is chasing a moving target as it tries to dig out of the nation's worst budget crisis, and a review obtained by The Associated Press shows $7.5 billion worth of unpaid bills — as much as half the total — hadn't been sent to the official who writes the checks by the end of June.
Although many of those IOUs have since been paid, a similar amount in unprocessed bills has replaced them in the last three months, Comptroller Susana Mendoza's office said Monday. That's in addition to $9 billion worth of checks that are at the office but being delayed because the state lacks the money to pay them.
Lets look at 1 major problem, you idiots made chicago-crook county-and the state a sanctuary state how many hundreds of billions is this costing us? Rahm and the rest boldly break federal laws and are not arrested yet! Hoping and praying this nightmare ends with all of them being indicted,arrested,processed and put away in a prison far from here! This city-state-county should put up billboards with there internet location corruptioninc.org!
We have a local supermarket (out of state) that gives
"fuel perks" based on total spending (redeem at local
gas stations (a subsidiary of the supermarket)).
Anyway, since I don't have a 30-gallon tank on an SUV
(Redemption: up to 30 gallons for free), I purchased
heavy duty no-leak 5 gallon red plastic cans. I save
my points, then get a friend with a pickup to fill up
5 large cans (will actually hold about 6 gallons).
So, before winter hits, get some containers before
winter so you can avoid trips across state lines in bad
weather. Store in safe place and add Sta-Bil MARINE
gas preservative. You don't need to be a tax hostage
during a blizzard or ice storm. PAY YOURSELF FIRST!
(screw the crazy taxes)
Anonymous Anonymous said...
If it’s the county’s budget, then the sherrifs can chase them. Maybe Finance Guy On A Bike will transfer and do bike stops, pulling over yupsters in Lakeview and bike messengers in the Loop.
10/10/2017 12:23:00 AM
Thats the funniest shit I've seen on this blog in a while. And F Crook County. You couldn't pay me enough to work for Bad Hair Day.
Finance Guy on a Bike.
"Blogger Baby"G" said...
In this regard, I must confess, that my Baby "G" Persona, includes frequent Bicycle Riding. Sure I have a nice pick-up truck, (Chgo. Wheel Tax, $200 per year.) but why should I risk having one of those sneaky revenue agents hit me with a parking citation. They covertly drop them off from unmarked vehicles to harass Northside residents, while they would not go near the West or Southside."
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I see them on the South and West sides daily. Working off of bikes or M Plate Finance Vehicles.
Wow, sounds like the new bike tax will not be very popular. Better get your protests organized and let the politicians that you want no new taxes and want tax relief. Force them to cut bloated budgets rather than raising taxes. if they won't put promise in writing, in very plain language, vote them out. Make them sign pledge or else. Know who and what your voting for a change. better yet drain the swamp and put in a whole new slate elected officials that will do your biding. Way past time for a change, democrats have had their chance, not time to try republicans. What have you got to lose.
Well at least some are asking right questions, about time. Now it's time to find new answers. Don't expect the current ruling party (democratic for those that haven't been paying attention), to have your back, no matter what they say. As history shows they will lie and cheat at every opportunity.
Good luck getting anyone to enforce such a stupid tax law! This place is such a joke! Hammer the middle class again instead of cutting spending. Get taxwinkle out of here.
Another reason to leave. If you think the county has a 200 million problem, what about the state. SEVEN to NINE BILLION, that's with B shortfall. Can't wait to see what kind of new taxes will be enacted. Get the pen out and the checkbook warmed up because they will be coming for you very soon. I promise you it won't be pretty, the billions in debt translate to somewhere $600_$800 per Illinois resident. That's actually an low because there are so many non taxpaying residents. Those numbers do not include the $18-12 BILLION in underfunded pensions. Can you say soon to be bankrupt state.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Bicycle tax? I thought bicycle riding was healthy. Just like the sugar drink tax was supposed to be for getting us healthy? Am I the one confused?
10/10/2017 05:54:00 AM
Yup and as we all just found out it was one big lying scam to fund the bloated government. Health my ass! They taxed drinks that healthy people drink like Gatorade and Coconut water. Drinks that usually only healthy people that are working out or playing a sport drink. Never trust them.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I've been saying all along. Leave the soda tax. This is a tax we can control. Not everybody drinks or doesn't drink a lot of soda. We also had the option to buy outside of the county. Now race baiter Preckwinkle will find a tax that we can't avoid and will tax us all. Once again we're our own worst enemy.
10/10/2017 07:34:00 AM
Really soft ball??? You're missing the point. When does it end? Tax tax tax to fund bloated government? How about cut spending cut government? Let people keep their money and they will spend it. And how exactly are they going to enforce such a stupid tax on bikes?
Time to build a wall around city to protect the rest of the country from the liberal plague infecting the once great city. Grew up in Austin area in the late 50s and 60s. Beautiful neighborhood safe day and night and decent city schools. What happened to that neighborhood. White flight in middle 60s and in a few short years the new demographics turned that once proud neighborhood into a war zone that is not safe to drive through during the day. Funny how quickly thing changed with just a change of the racial demographics in the area. Same happened all over city but it is not politically correct to point this out. Better to ignore the facts if they make people uncomfortable.
Toni plans to tax all items sold in the county that have sugar added so as to save the poor children. say good by to candy bars as they will now have a hundred percent added to them . Toni is also doing a salt tax on food which contain salt don't get made it is for the poor children. Toni has also announced a tax on red meat because it is leading to high cholesterol in children your beef will be taxed at 10 cent an ounce . Toni is also adding a tax on chicken, pork and turkey which is designed to keep the little children from getting chubby. It is all for the children so don't complain it not like she wants to waste the money
Well keep taxing this retired guy and I will soon be living somewhere else
why not a $100 fine for no lights and a $50 fine for not using a turn signal or riding into traffic
why not tax all the illegal vendors olong 26th St and outside every school ,this goes on everyday on 26thst and monday through friday during school year
go get the non tax paying , no health inspection vendors
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