Mayor Daley Wants Tax on Bottled Water

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on that all Democratic town called Chicago:

Mayor Daley is poised to raise property taxes for the first time in four years -- and tax bottled water, gasoline and restaurant meals -- to close a $217 million budget gap, City Hall sources say.

The mayor can either raise property taxes by the $30 million allowed by the city's self-imposed cap, raise that ceiling or eliminate it altogether. Sources said those options are under consideration, and no final decision has been made.
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Mayor Daley (left) is poised to raise property taxes for the first time in four years. Todd Stroger (right) supports a controversial hike in Cook County's sales tax.


The effect on Chicago homeowners and businesses will be compounded by higher water and sewer rates to finance the costly switch to automatic meter readers.

The new bottled water tax mirrors the 10-to-25-cent-per- container surcharge proposed by Ald. George Cardenas (12th) to reduce landfill costs and encourage consumers to drink tap water.

A nickel-a-gallon increase in the city's gasoline tax is also on the table, threatening to boost fuel prices already the highest in the nation. Neighborhood parking meters now fixed at 25 cents an hour could rise to prices more in line with the $1 an hour paid downtown, sources said.

We thought water was good for you.So now the greedy politicians in Chicago want to put a special tax on water.Few places can say they have a city gasoline tax.Doesn't the Democratic Party in Chicago care about people poor? Well,we know they care about people who work for the government and want to retire at 48 years old.