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What a horse's pitoot.
Mar. 1st, 2008 09:33 am I swear to God, the County Board...e
It's bad enough that the Cook County bureaucracy is bloated beyond recognition. But reading the news this morning, I saw that Todd Stroger got what he wanted: a tax hike. I mean, WTF?! It's bad enough that Chicago has the highest sales taxes in the nation, but to add insult to injury? This man (who shouldn't even be in office anyway, thank you Cook County Dummycrats) seems to think that protecting his patronage is more important than keeping taxes down. We already pay way too much as it is, and Cook County doesn't control spending like they should. The only consolation is that control of the county hospital system is going to be turned over to an independent board, and that Stroger's tax hike was only a doubling instead of a tripling.
I was against the type of controls that were implemented in California by Proposition 13 in 1978, but I'm beginning to think that a modified version of them will be required here: tax hikes such as this should be put to a vote of the populace instead of letting a small group of overpaid airheads raise them.
To wit, thanks to Stephan Pastis:
It's bad enough that the Cook County bureaucracy is bloated beyond recognition. But reading the news this morning, I saw that Todd Stroger got what he wanted: a tax hike. I mean, WTF?! It's bad enough that Chicago has the highest sales taxes in the nation, but to add insult to injury? This man (who shouldn't even be in office anyway, thank you Cook County Dummycrats) seems to think that protecting his patronage is more important than keeping taxes down. We already pay way too much as it is, and Cook County doesn't control spending like they should. The only consolation is that control of the county hospital system is going to be turned over to an independent board, and that Stroger's tax hike was only a doubling instead of a tripling.
I was against the type of controls that were implemented in California by Proposition 13 in 1978, but I'm beginning to think that a modified version of them will be required here: tax hikes such as this should be put to a vote of the populace instead of letting a small group of overpaid airheads raise them.
To wit, thanks to Stephan Pastis:
