A Taxing Issue

Last year, the county I live in, at the urging of its board president, Todd Stroger, raised its sales tax so much that Chicago now has the highest sales tax in the whole friggin' country. This lead me, like many other Cook County residents to do even more of their shopping online or out of state.

Last week, the county board voted overwhelmingly (12-3) to repeal the tax increase. At first, Stroger said he would veto the repeal, then, when public sentiment appeared to be overwhelmingly in favor of the repeal, seemed to waffle on the point.

Today, Todd Stroger announced that he would indeed veto the repeal of the sales tax.

Today, Todd Stroger's reelection chances went from "slim" to "none."