Increasing parking fees would have been fairer.
Nope. They decided to tax groceries 🤦
In their defense, this is a far better way to exploit people who can’t afford cars.
I didn’t say it was a good defense…
Best defense is a good offense.
The investment revenue generated from JB Pritzker’s billions in one day is probably enough to pay for the food programs in many small Illinois towns.
It looks to me like this is just replacing a tax on everyone in IL on the state level paid to municipalities, they now let municipalities take the option to impose one of equal burden, or choose not to.
It is unfortunate that the majority of municipalities opted to preserve the status quo by imposing it, rather than making the revenue back some other way, but Springfield and Chicago did not, so there still are a lot of people who now don’t have grocery taxes, and those that do are not paying more than they did last year.