The City of DeKalb needs money. The city has something like 10 gas stations. It also delivers residential parking permits for FREE :
https://www.cityofdekalb.com/1192/Residential-Parking-Permits
But instead, they are seriously considering a sales tax on GROCERIES 🤦
How about taxing the wealthy instead of food? Taxing cars is nice too.
Wealthy, in DeKalb? You won’t get any revenue that way. DeKalb is mostly just a university town. A lot of the people who go to that university commute from Rockford or the Chicago suburbs.
Northern Illinois leaders consider reinstating grocery sales tax at local level
Seems like it’s going to affect more than DeKalb, see the article title.
Regardless, I lived in a rural university town myself in the past - much more rural than DeKalb. There were plenty of rich people tucked away in their massive homes. At least enough to raise their taxes just a bit to generate 800k of revenue.
Tax literally anything instead of food, I say - groceries are high enough and not everybody struggling qualifies for food stamps.
Sounds like they copied their plans from the Party Against Citizens (a dutch comedy satire sketch, name says it all)
Nvm, they wouldn’t propose something instead of other taxes
Groceries, such an old fashioned word. They are saying these days though, these groceries.
Nowhere in that does it mention parking or gas taxes. Where did you pull that from?
From the article:
On Wednesday night, DeKalb County Board members began considering a county-wide 1% grocery tax.
It appears they changed the article contents? I looked and couldn’t find anything about making a parking fee or gas tax. Only that the state is removing a 1% grocery tax and is giving each county the option of keeping or removing the tax.
Maybe there’s another article or meeting minutes?
Devil’s advocate: The city needs money for services for everyone, cars aren’t used by everyone but everyone eats.
Cars aren’t used by everyone but everyone paid to have road maintained.
…so how the fuck does it make sense to tax food?
Is local democracy functional in that city? Or is it one of those places where incumbents have made themselves impossible to remove?
