Don't Look Now....
Taxes, fees and tolls just went up massively in Illinois:
As the clocked ticked down and Illinois' veto session came to a close, Illinois lawmakers in Springfield in the wee hours of Friday morning approved a new, $1.5 billion transit funding bill for public transportation agencies, mainly in the Chicago area.
The new bill passed passed without large, and controversial statewide tax increases that had been previously proposed, like taxes on streaming services, a $5-per-ticket concert and new speeding cameras in the suburbs.
However, the bill is still likely to raise sales tax in Chicago and the suburbs, and will significantly hike fares for trips on the Illinois Tollway, including to O'Hare International Airport.
Tolls will be climbing from $0.75 to $1.20. RTA sales taxes raised in Cook and surrounding suburbs.
And don't worry about your electricity bill - they raised that, too!
A proposal to bring more power online in Illinois to meet high demand and potentially help curb rising electric bills was sent to Gov. JB Pritzker after state lawmakers passed the plan Thursday.
The measure is aimed at creating more power in Illinois as the state and the country face a rising demand for electricity from big data centers.
A major piece of the plan is the funding of giant battery storage, which aims to capture power during points of low demand, store it and release it when there is high demand.
Gotta love that word...."potentially."
We've been hearing it for decades, but can anyone tell us the last time an electric rate actually went down? We went over our bills for the past few years, and even dug around in our bank records and the only time our electric bills were lower was when we used less electricity - the rate charged never budged a penny while Illinois closed power plants and banned building nuclear reactors.
But what's another $7-to-10 billion dollars from the diminishing population of taxpayers and companies fleeing Illinois for cheaper power and costs of living?
Illinois is a slow motion disaster, but it's picking up speed lately.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
22 Comments:
I remember the tollway was only supposed to be in place till the road was payed for. Then they would removce the toll booths. Didnt some scum politicians nepotism hire steal all the quarters he couild too
It wasn’t enough that the Democrat’s are messing up Chicago and Cook County, they now want to mess up the whole Illinois. Vote the whole group out of office!
Vote democrat for more....
Electric bills going up? What about consumption? My dickhead neighbor has 3 EV vehicles that and he charges two each night and all night? Like fuck I use a quarter of his consumption per month but he’ll probably get a tax break despite our infrastructure about to be overwhelmed by his warm fuzzy mobiles
Don’t forget the data centers will be using minimum of about 500,000 gallons of fresh clean Lake Michigan water per day, they are quietly piping it out to Joliet and other communities saying the wells and aquafiers are running dry, as they build more data centers for job killing AI! Water without Gods intervention is not a renewable resource, look at the old U.S. steel plant the massive development for this monster data centers. The delusional idiot governor and conehead are saying many jobs will be created, yes in construction but they will have minimal people to maintain these facilities. Wate bills are already rising the will hit the stratosphere soon, as this valuable resource is depleted! How much have the democratic institutions and the democrats been given via back door to sell us out? Why are we saddled with extreme bills to pay for the billionaire investors! As jelly belly use the lawful federal actions here as a diversion look at the other evil hand they hold! Illinois like Chicago are spiraling so rapidly down the black hole will never recover!
It’s called Hellinoise for a reason
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When the battery plant goes up it'll make the city toxic to live in for 50 years.
Illinois was depending on Kamala to give mucho dinero for their illegal imports. Sorry Illinois, it's not happening.
Funny how all DemoRatic run states do NOTHING but raise taxes and burden taxpayers. Example, look at New Jersey and what they pay for electric and gas..is it any wonder that state may actually turn red next week after the governors race..voters are finally waking up! Too bad the voters here in illinois are too stupid.
The majority of all taxes are spent on the salaries, benefits and pensions of government employees. Public service and infrastructure come last, as always! Like the Illinois Tollway Authority that exists solely to fund the salaries, benefits and pensions of the people who work for the tollway! A snake eating its own tail.
All this money to pay for CTA, for a train that is full of homeless, smells like piss, and is full of crime. Our tax dollars hard at work. Just love getting on the Blue line from O'Hare, all the tourists get to experience the real Chicago. Sad, that people have to ride like this and pay extra because you are getting on at O'Hare.
A bunch of Democrats sit around in Springfield and one of them says, "We need more money for stuff. What should we do?" Pained, frustrated looks come over the room as they try to think. They, after an agonizingly long time, someone say, "I know let's raise taxes!" Shouts of joy and relief come over the room. Cigars are passed out and words like "brilliant" and "guru" as tossed about. They wipe the sweat off of their brows and order some food in celebration of figuring out a solution to such a tough question.
So everyone has to pay more for public transportation except its actual users?!
Damn people - VOTE!
This is what you get when you Don't Vote!
Illinois has been a slow motion disaster for years.
Continuing to circle the drain ...
My move out of state plan is fully in place. Thank you God!
What floored me was the revelation that the interest earned on our 2nd highest in the nation state gasoline tax at .48.3 cents per gallon was over $200 MILLION dollars!
They're literally taking in more money on the gasoline tax that they can spend!
And now that $200 million won't go towards road construction and bridge repairs at all and will fund the CTA and RTA.
Leave Illinois as soon as you can with as much as you can...
Correct, when it was first proposed it was sold as "temporary" with the slogan...FREE BY 1973!
How's that working out for everyone?
Today, the tollway is another institution for grifting and nepotism (skim from the taxpayers and give to the connected).
ComEd needs higher bills? Wasn’t this the company involved in the bribery case?
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