Glad I don't live in Chicago! Robbery!

[otis24]

Boy, I sure am glad that I don't live in Chicago. Particularly Cook County. We sold a vehicle to the dealer's owner. In addition to the 9% sales tax, there is a 17% tax on each lease payment made. That's 26% on tax on a lease. Good thing CCW is coming to Illionois. Perhaps people will be able to protect themselves from unarmed robbery!

 

[goodguyry]

That is just one of the main reasons I left Chicago and moved to Indiana. It got too expensive to live there with taxes and prices such as parking.

 

[Harrison]

The state, county and/or city need the taxes in order to provide a continued high quality of services to their residents. At least that is the usual excuse for high local taxes.

 

[H Richard]

The rest of the people of IL would just like Chicago to go away. Yes, we finally got a CCW law this week, but with the ISP being given 6 months to get set up to accept applications, and every instructor needing to be approved by the ISP, and the application process taking a minimum of 90 days, and the application requiring 16 hours of training, it will be 2015 before the first permit is probably issued. There have already been a half dozen "amendments" proposed to the law. I'm not holding my breath, I just use my FL permit when I cross the river into MO and feel a lot better.

 

[jaykellogg]

When I worked in Batavia (Western suburb) I made friends one man told me his city/county property tax was $5500/year. I had, at that time, a 2700 square foot home on an acre with six garages and my taxes were between $1600-1700/year. For that extra I would expect a daily foot rub.