Time for me to shop...outside Cook County?

A member of that group of ward-heelers known as the Cook County Board, leaders of a patronage army of layabouts, is proposing a two percent sales tax increase. As I noted in a July post, this failure of an organization can't even respond to a police call about a pollution incident I encountered.

If the sales tax goes through, which will make Chicagoans (who have a higher tax than suburbanites like myself) pay a whopping 11 percent on most items purchased in the nation's third largest city.

Gasoline prices what they are, someone like myself, who doesn't live too far from Lake County, will head there to buy big ticket items.

The Cook County Board has been under Democratic Party control for almost forty years.

One party rule. Gotta love it.

The way to solve problems in Cook County's government, which is America's largest, is simple.

Cut, privatize, cut. Eliminate. Slash and burn.

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