Blaaagh! More Taxes!!

By vouchey in News on Nov 29, 2004 12:32PM

You knew it was coming: Budget problems and a ton of taxes for folks in Chicagoland. You got your state taxes, your county taxes, your city taxes, and not to mention all those little property taxes. It's enough to make a person move to Alaska to save a little dough.

Today the Sun Times ran a nice little article recapping our increasing tax grief here in Chicago. While taxes certainly stink, the article seems to be a litany of complains from the business community, since there's no real discussion of what all these taxes do for us (or not do for us). On the other side, the Sun Times also ran an article today about how Illinois manages to run a nice, small state government. And then yesterday, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about fraying City-Labor ties. One of Labor's biggest complaints? Mayor Richard M. Daley has cut the number of city employees by 4,200. What a waste.