Sales Tax Repeal Update: Standing Firm Against the Veto
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Wednesday's rollback
of President Stroger's regressive sales tax was an important event
to help keep shopping in our community, protect jobs and keep
more of our hard-earned money in our own pocket. I am pleased that the
Daily Herald's editorial board recognized this effort and encouraged
all the commissioners to stand firm against his anticipated veto.
Here's the story from the Daily Herald Editorial Board:
One more sponsor:
Cook County Commissioner Gregg Goslin,
a Glenview Republican, also sponsored the measure to roll back the Cook
County sales tax by half a percentage point. We inadvertently left Goslin's
name out of our Friday editorial thanking the sponsors.
Commissioners, keep fighting
to cut sales tax
The Cook County commissioners who repeatedly
fought for a repeal of the county's highest-in-the-state sales tax today
receive our thanks, praise and encouragement to keep it up. Earlier this week, some of them attempted
for a fourth time to roll back the 1 percentage point hike pushed by
Cook County Board President Todd Stroger in 2008. Those who pushed for
a full repeal include suburban Republican commissioners Timothy Schneider
of Bartlett, Liz Gorman of Orland Park, whose district stretches into
Northwest Cook County, and Tony Peraica of Riverside. Thank you.
Sadly, that effort failed, but another
attempt to roll back a half-percentage-point of the increase succeeded,
attracting 12 votes after state officials approved a law lowering the
number of votes it will take to override the Cook president from 14
to 11. Stroger promises to again veto the repeal by the Monday deadline.
He's waiting, he told the Chicago Sun Times, in the hopes that voters
will call three Chicago Democratic commissioners and persuade them to
side with him to save county health services. Stroger is targeting Earlean
Collins, Robert Steele and Edwin Reyes and has managed to twist arms
his way before. So, Cook County voters. call these commissioners. They
need to hear you want them to override Stroger's veto and cut the sales
tax. Read the rest of the editorial here.
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