Reason #whatever to leave Chicago
Okay, so today the base sales tax rate for the city of Chicago went up to a whopping 10.25%, the highest in the nation. While I can arguably afford this better than some other folks, anybody who cares about urban poverty knows how regressive sales taxes are. This is courtesy of our idiot a**hole "I got in because my dad was somebody" Cook County Board president Todd Stroger. This guy is a piece of work and this is all going to backfire eventually. You can't just keep taxing people into oblivion and a) expect them to stay and b) expect the economy to flourish. And this obviously comes at a time when so many people are already struggling and gas is over $4 a gallon. Real intelligent.