This is moving fast! Eighty-six days after the Cook County Board's much-hated sales tax hike took effect, taxpayers now need to wait just 496 more days to fire Board President Todd Stroger and the 10 other Democrats who continue to impose this increase. Tough economic times? Not at Cook County government! There's money galore!Since we know about that real-state transfer tax of the city and how that's working out, how about that sales-tax increase from earlier this year? It is too early to know if the revenue from that tax is reaching whatever projections are made at the county? And is it good that they're borrowing money for county operations?
But with voters so angry about the sales tax increase, why would four of the County Board's five suburban Republicans volunteer to join Stroger's funny-money gang? GreggGoslin, Elizabeth Doody Gorman, Tim Schneider and Peter Silvestri: What's this? You didn't learn from the very tax increase you opposed that voters loathe board members who cave to Stroger's demands for ever more public money? You also didn't learn from Wall Street's meltdown that debt can be a terrible millstone?
I should also add that the editorial mentions that most of the county board Republicans were on board for this borrowing. This editorial almost sounds like they want these Republicans out of office for their "complicity".
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