CHICAGO – Illinois families will notice a substantial hike at the grocery checkout if a new tax on sugary drinks to be voted on this week in the Illinois Senate becomes law.
The new statewide tax will add a one cent per ounce tax to sugary drinks such as soda pop, fruit drinks, flavored drink powders and chocolate-flavored drink.
The proposed one cent per ounce tax will double the Cook County one cent per ounce tax that is already poised go into effect in July 2017.
The so-called soda pop tax will increase the cost of a gallon of chocolate drink by $1.28 statewide and $2.56 in Cook County.
I emailed my state senator, Sen. Terry Link (a Waukegan Democrat), and I asked him to vote against that bill. On Sen. Radogno’s facebook page, I said that, if she votes for that bill, she’ll get a primary opponent, in 2018.
Chicagoans will be paying three taxes (city, county and state) on such beverages.
Time for a tea party!
If Rauner signs this gigantic tax increase on he working middle class, he will lose by a landslide. Trump won, Rauner will lose. Reagan won, George H.W. Bush lost.
A raise on the price of “Chocolate MILK?”
This is typical if the sneaky way taxes get raised in Illinois:
“Milk” is left out of the increase,
but IF it is “CHOCOLATE” milk, it’s re-classified as a “sugared soft drink.”
The politicians in this state had better wake up. People are moving out of Illinois in droves because they cannot afford to live here.
YOU ARE STUPID!
Reduce the size of government
Remember, the Illinois Democrats represent working families. They are protecting us from those heartless Republicans. So if this sugar tax is protecting working families then you should trust them to make the right decisions for all us. They have done such of good job over the past 15 years protecting their majority despite catosstrophic polices and corruption. Heck they even got a Chicago guy into the White House and boy did he show the country hoe it’s done.
Protecting working class families.
I agree that, if Gov. Rauner signs that bill, he’ll lose. He’ll lose his primary to a conservative, and that conservative might win the general election.