When in Doubt....
Chicago residents and businesses would pay $1.25 for every package they have delivered — whether from Amazon or another business — under a proposed ground delivery tax that could generate as much as $275 million a year.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th), chair of the City Council’s Committee on Economic and Capital Development, wants cash-strapped Chicago to follow the trail blazed by Colorado and Minnesota, which have imposed similar delivery fees.
Villegas’ ordinance calls for a ground delivery tax of $1.25 per package that would be imposed “on the purchaser of the tangible personal property being delivered … without regard to the number of items within” each package.
We'll just have everything delivered to our suburban dwelling offspring. Then we'll get to visit the grand kids more. Or Amazon opens up a bunch of those drop-off lockers at suburban sites that are just over the border - Oak Lawn, Oak Park, Bridgeview, Elk Grove, Niles, Norridge, etc. and you pick up your stuff there for free.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
47 Comments:
Amazon delivers 20 packages to a complex, taxes a quick $25 tax for CTU.
The lockers are not an option for Karen in Lincoln Park. Some of those suburbs are icky!
It’s time for the Broadway musical Urinetown to reopen in Chicago.
Excellent idea, SCC. The packages will be safer. I am less than 10 minutes from the grandchildren, but there is a grandchild tax as in "What you got for me?"!!!!!!
Bottled Water Tax? How much bottled water does ANYONE buy in the City limits? Wasn't it reported that Costco just over the border is the biggest seller of bottled water in the area? If not the whole Country? Bet those rancid fucks spent the "predicted" tax dollars before they were received, and that the revenues were lower than expected so they have to raise some tax... ad nauseum.
Cigarette tax? How many degenerate smokers "make a run" over to Indiana for a car load of cigarettes? Then they split up everything with their friends... ZERO tax for Prickwrinkle & Co.
None of these stupid mother fuckers ever talk about just cutting the budget.
I’m ready for a new address out of illinois
There is ALWAYS a work around!!!
They (Democrats) never know how to cut anything from a budget. It's always Tax, Fee, Tax, Fee, Tax, Fee. There are tons of things they could cut from a budget that would never affect the day to day, nor the long term operations.
Like SCC mentioned..deliver to your relatives or friends in the burbs or set up an amazon pick up at locations in the burbs...fuck Conehead!! Dont give this City a dime of your hard earned money for this asshole.
Let's face it. The Aldermen are not deep thinkers.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
This city alderman are leaches along with all politicians in Illinois.. only 2 more years and I’m out this dump!
How are the casinos doing? Didn’t they say they would bring chicago all this revenue??
...or at the PO Box I already had to get over the border in Indiana, due to all the Porch Pirates & mail thieves allowed to roam with impunity in my Chicago neighborhood.
Will we get a tax refund for all our stolen packages?
Chicago is cash strapped because of overspending...not because of a lack of taxes. I can't expect a bunch of locally elected CPS graduates to understand that. They are overstepping their powers and authorities making Chicago unbearable to live in.
So, yet another class of business is required to perform the collections of taxes at the point of sale, yet another line item added to the billing document handed to the purchaser, yet another pocket chande pilfering by the taxation nation of the petty pocket pickers' fiefdom of leeching lads and lasses, all mincing about wearing their sticky fingered fancy skin tight stylish attire.
Results: the taxings shall continue until those who provide honest services via honest employment are eliminated by honest disgust at being used to facillitate dishonest pilferings. Aka, reduced business activities = layoffs follow.
"degenerate smokers"? Oh, the vanity!!
But would effect the graft.
And the implementation of this scheme promptly is adopted by crook county crooks. In addition to city pilferings.
Deep, did you say, deep?????
Quivers.
It's been said a lot Chicago doesn't have a revenue problem they have a spending problem. They never cut anything but the number of police
Right, and she doesn't want to ride her rented electric scooter through all the icky Chicago neighborhoods to get there either. But, she has a Hate Has No Home sign up.
How much money do they waste forcing those stupid bike lanes on our streets? The anti-automobile progressive loser is pissed off at the world because they can't afford a car. They have pay $3,000 rent a month to live in Trendyville and also pay off their college loan for that super useful degree in 19th Century Feminist Political Thought. They just want to make everyone as miserable as they are. Leave our streets alone, pinhead.
Thank you, may I have another...
Ali Baba Conehead and his fifty thieves are nothing but pirates. This is not government by the people for the people, it is straight up theft
If we make one order online, yet the seller sends it in several shipments, are we charged extra for each shipment? Or does the seller eat that? Or is the tax charged once per order?
Then here in Springfield look at this elimination of police less money less enforcement:
https://springfieldherald.news/springfield-police-department-announces-the-addition-of-community-service-o-p27016-105.htm
It was a simple matter of time. I'm old enough to remember when there was no sales tax on Internet purchases.
Aldercreatures have no problem handing out massive “settlements “ . Then cry poor and resort to taxing your package
How about the bag tax? I can proudly say I have never paid it. Either brought my own or go to a burb and shop. Same will be true for this new tax. Not much deep thinking behind it. My shopping will be safer if I use a locker now, which I will, in my suburban neighborhood nearby with a damn locker. Where are the social justice paraders? Oh wait, Soros probably won't pay for demonstrators against Democrats.
Agree!
Tax the rich. Only problem is that money is mobile. You can move it out of the reach of the tax man. Perhaps the governor can explain how off shore tax shelters work to hide your wealth from the tax man.
To tax the rich = tax themselves.
But, is there always a reach around?
Riddle that.
You'll know this when you experience this.
They may tax based on where the item was ordered from not where it’s delivered to. Would a private VPN dodge this and many issues? Could a net nerd chime in?
Is this Constitutional? Is this not “… Affecting Interstate Commerce…””?
Something in Article IV about “… No State shall tax the imports from another State…?
CORRECTION: Article 1, Section 9, prohibits one State from taxing goods from another State. Any sort of Delivery Fee on interstate commerce is a de facto Tax, and is probably Unconstitutional. A Delivery Fee solely on intrastate commerce— from one Illinois address to another Illinois address that never leaves the State of Illinois— is definitely Constitutional.
Any refund when you're shit is stolen from porch pirates?
Ok Mamdani, relax.
...well..someone has to feed all of the illegals hiding here in Chicago...
What's next? -Bring back the pop tax?
Makes it easier to get ammo, standard capacity magazines and parts for your AR-15 that you lost in a boating accident.
Remember, once they create NEW taxes, they only get increased in time, not reduced or cut!!!
when I do have to shop in Chicago, i always use the self check-out and when the machine asks how many store bags i used i always put in 0...even though i may have 3 or 4 or more...I will never give Crook County any bag tax money.
My kids and grandkids have their packages delivered to my house in the burbs , namely because of porch pirates. Now, we will have another reason.
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