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Bunch of Commissioners filed to repeal the tax. Gripe about how they need it, now they realize it's beyond idiotic. Sent from my VS987 using Tapatalk

 

That's probably falling right into her hands, a bunch of people will get laid off or they will have to agree to a real-estate tax increase which is what she wanted in the first place.

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I'm back safe and Wow gas was 15 cents a gallon less also! Thanks Toni for the tax increase. Thanks to her I'm saving more money in the next county.

Take that Toni. You have just made Crook County revenue decrease as you have forced us to find a more affordable way to live and that way is to deny you your stupid tax.

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USDA regrets to inform Crook County that, since the tax provision levies a tax on federal assistance dollars (refunds later, but at one point takes the tax), that it's illegal and now the entire friggin State of Illinois is at risk of losing $86M in federal grants because of Taxwinkletoes.

 

USDA SNAP letter, DHS letter to Preckwinkle (the "What the hey!!! are you doing?") letter

https://www.scribd.com/document/356007956/USDA-Snap-Letter#from_embed

https://www.scribd.com/document/356007935/IDHS-Letter-to-Preckwinkle#from_embed

 

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Cook County is laughable if not downright stupid.......

Raise taxes on everything to meet budgets, taxes are based on population in Cook County.

People leave Cook Count every year in droves........leaving the population less each year.

Whine n cry that the schools have less stud nuts each year so the allotment of funds is less, boo hoo!

Raise more taxes including property taxes again, but there are less residents there to pay those taxes.

Can't figure out why we aren't taking in the amounts through our projections, so now we are shorts funds.

More people leave the next year as you raise taxes or create new ones based on the number of people in Cook County three years ago!

Then you fall flat again on your projections and can't understand why, so you raise more taxes...........

 

Rinse -Repeat - Rinse - Repeat - Rinse - Repeat

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Unless someone burns down the house (or takes out the toilets) someone is still paying the real-estate taxes, (The OPTIMAL tax)

The next step would be to introduce an Employers Head Tax like what Chicago repealed in 2012 for the county, so even if you move out at least your employer would be contributing more.

 

The key is just finding the right target of people to discriminate (tax) against. "First they came for the jews...."

Obviously that statement has nothing to do with religion just identifying the example on how to pick people off and eventually tax the ... out of everyone.

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full story at link...

 

More hot water for Preckwinkle's pop tax

 

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170815/BLOGS02/170819924/more-hot-water-for-preckwinkles-pop-tax

 

Cook County is in hot water with yet another government agency over its pop tax, this time the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.

 

In a letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, the commission wrote that even though the tax on sweetened beverages excludes alcohol, many of the wholesalers to which it applies distribute both kinds of products and therefore have to deal with the tax complications of the county's new levy. As a result, it "may lead to practices that violate the Illinois Liquor Control Act."

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full story at link...

 

More hot water for Preckwinkle's pop tax

 

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20170815/BLOGS02/170819924/more-hot-water-for-preckwinkles-pop-tax

 

Cook County is in hot water with yet another government agency over its pop tax, this time the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.

 

In a letter to Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, the commission wrote that even though the tax on sweetened beverages excludes alcohol, many of the wholesalers to which it applies distribute both kinds of products and therefore have to deal with the tax complications of the county's new levy. As a result, it "may lead to practices that violate the Illinois Liquor Control Act."

It should be fun for bar tenders to keep track of the tax when making mixed drinks.

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They need to just simplify it, tax anything drinkable in a bottle, can, or carton and do it at the manufacture level.

I'm beginning to really like taxwinkle crook country needs a good screwing for their influence over the whole state and she's just the right person to do it.

Tax the living c..p out of the people in crook county and maybe you can squeeze some sense into them to revolt against the socialist ^[^[^[ Democrat party.

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They need to just simplify it, tax anything drinkable in a bottle, can, or carton and do it at the manufacture level.

I'm beginning to really like taxwinkle crook country needs a good screwing for their influence over the whole state and she's just the right person to do it.

Tax the living c..p out of the people in crook county and maybe you can squeeze some sense into them to revolt against the socialist ^[^[^[ Democrat party.

 

Then I really hope they do it statewide. Especially where you live ...

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My take on it is that I'm ok with the tax. I don't pay it because I can buy outside the county, just like I do with my other purchases that are unfairly taxed by Cook County.

 

However, this tax is paid by visitors to Chicago and Cook County, tourists or business people, and there is no shortage of them coming here and paying the tax.

 

As long as the outsiders are paying the sugar tax, there's no need to raise my property tax. I like the lower property taxes. I can only cringe at the thought of how much taxes might be if my house was on the other side of the county line.

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But Bloomberg says its a really great deal and he is going to spend a million dollars or so on advertisements supporting the tax. Perhaps he could just give the money to the county and have the tax lowered by that amount. I just love a New Yorker coming to Chicago to tell everyone what is good for them. I guess the Bloomberg elites just realize we are too stupid to know better just like they knew what president was best for the country.

 

And don't worry they have already, and they will continue to raise your property taxes. There might be a moratorium for a short while but that won't do more than slow them down a little. Ours have nearly tripled in 8 years.

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Unless someone burns down the house (or takes out the toilets) someone is still paying the real-estate taxes, (The OPTIMAL tax)

The next step would be to introduce an Employers Head Tax like what Chicago repealed in 2012 for the county, so even if you move out at least your employer would be contributing more.

 

The key is just finding the right target of people to discriminate (tax) against. "First they came for the jews...."

Obviously that statement has nothing to do with religion just identifying the example on how to pick people off and eventually tax the ... out of everyone.

 

That is like the St. Louis City Earnings Tax. Anybody that works inside St. Louis city limits, regardless of where they live, they are forced to pay this non-refundable tax. And you can't claim it on either the federal, MO state, or IL state 1040s.

 

This may be related. There was a coupon in the Sunday papers a couple of weeks ago for a discounted price on Krispy Kreme donuts. When I looked at the receipt, there was an ADDITIONAL 2% tax on top of the state's 8.35% !!

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