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CHICAGO TAX FOLLIES

September 20, 2007

Our central Iowa politicians were crushed at the polls when they attampted a 17% boost in the local sales tax rate: from 6% to 7%.

Chicago's politicians are even more brazen. Taxable Talk reports:

But Chicago may become a much more taxing place to visit or shop. Currently, the sales tax in Cook County (Chicago and nearby suburbs) is 9.00%. That doesn't appear to be large enough to Cook County Commissioners.

Cook County Commissioner Joan Murphy told Leah Hope of WLS-TV, "We just need to do something other than cut jobs if we want to maintain services to our residents." What's the something she proposes? A sales tax increase from 9% to between 11% and 11.75%. That's somewhere between a 22.2% increase and a 30.6% increase.

Of course they need the money. There are a lot of worthy politicians who still need something to plead guilty to, and there are a number of airports in Chicagoland that haven't been destroyed in the dead of night.

The Tax Policy Blog has more.

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