When in Doubt....

....create another tax!

• 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.