A list of "some" of the middle class tax hikes in IllinoisArchived Message
Posted by riverbender on May 23, 2019, 12:28 pm
We can thank all of our good Democrat friends and neighbors for this one.
Six-pack Joe and Mary, however, will see something different, and fast. Here is the list of taxes on the table to pay for the program:
Gas tax hike — doubling Illinois’ motor fuel tax to 38 cents from 19 cents per gallon, effective July 1.
Vehicle registration fee hike – doubling the fee for newer vehicles.
New ridesharing tax of $1 per ride.
Expanding Chicago’s “Netflix tax” statewide — 7% tax on users of streaming services, cable and satellite customers.
Higher taxes on beer, wine and liquor — $120 million worth.
New statewide parking garage tax — 6% tax for daily parking and 9% for monthly and annual.
Doubling the real estate transfer tax – we’ve been calling this a Exit Tax because it makes it more expensive to sell your home and flee.
Higher registration fees for electric vehicles — increasing to $250 per year from $34 every other year.
Those are just to pay for the capital program. Also on the table, separately, are a plastic bag tax, tax on Medicaid providers, sports gambling tax, marijuana tax, video gambling tax hike, retailer tax hike, e-cigarette tax hike, higher cigarette taxes and the income tax hike on high earners.
Six-pack Joe and Mary will scream. The different nature of capital spending will mean nothing to them. They’ll see they got whacked immediately, contrary to Pritzker’s promise to soak the rich instead of them.