Comments on: Street Taxes: The Excessive Cost of Municipal Corruption and Mismanagement http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/street-taxes-the-excessive-cost-of-municipal-corruption-and-mismanagement/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:17:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Car insurance claims >> http://onlinecarinsuranceclaims.com/ http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/street-taxes-the-excessive-cost-of-municipal-corruption-and-mismanagement/comment-page-1/#comment-29721 Car insurance claims >> http://onlinecarinsuranceclaims.com/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:28:17 +0000 http://www.cdobs.com/?p=82049#comment-29721 [... - www.cdobs.com is other wonderful authority of advice. Car insurance claims [... - [... - http://www.cdobs.com is other wonderful authority of advice. Car insurance claims [… -

]]> By: Darryl http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/street-taxes-the-excessive-cost-of-municipal-corruption-and-mismanagement/comment-page-1/#comment-29329 Darryl Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:03:10 +0000 http://www.cdobs.com/?p=82049#comment-29329 Well take all the money you are saving and move to that god-foresaken place Well take all the money you are saving and move to that god-foresaken place

]]> By: Steven http://www.cdobs.com/archive/featured/street-taxes-the-excessive-cost-of-municipal-corruption-and-mismanagement/comment-page-1/#comment-29283 Steven Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:04:58 +0000 http://www.cdobs.com/?p=82049#comment-29283 You bet retailers without parking are suffering losses. Thanks to both the sales tax and limited parking hours (I am NOT going to interrupt my afternoon to return to my car every two hours to pay for more parking), I leave not only Chicago, but also Illinois to do all my grocery and other shopping that I do not do online with Amazon (free shipping, no sales tax). Just a few miles over the state line east there's a 24-hour Meijer in Highland, IN and north there's a 24-hour Woodmans in Pleasant Prairie, WI. No sales tax on food and 7% sales tax on general merchandise in IN and 5.5% in WI. I spend roughly $150 every two weeks at one or the other store. That's a little less than $4,000 a year by one person that is leaving the city of Chicago. If there are just 250 others like me, that's $1 million in retail sales a year leaving the city. The parking lot is always filled with cars with IL plates, so I would guess there are more than 250 others like me. Gas costs at least 50 cents per gallon less too over the state line and with the mileage my car gets, the savings in the gas price alone pays for the trip. I don't bother either with restaurants that do not have their own parking lot, like former faves Nookies and Resi's Bierstube. Instead I choose competitors like Ann Sather's and Mirabel. But mostly, I leave the city altogether for the suburbs where people are not hassled and nickled and dimed to death for every little thing. If I could sell my condo, I would move out of Chicago and Illinois. Life here is no longer enjoyable. I'd rather be in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You bet retailers without parking are suffering losses. Thanks to both the sales tax and limited parking hours (I am NOT going to interrupt my afternoon to return to my car every two hours to pay for more parking), I leave not only Chicago, but also Illinois to do all my grocery and other shopping that I do not do online with Amazon (free shipping, no sales tax). Just a few miles over the state line east there’s a 24-hour Meijer in Highland, IN and north there’s a 24-hour Woodmans in Pleasant Prairie, WI. No sales tax on food and 7% sales tax on general merchandise in IN and 5.5% in WI.

I spend roughly $150 every two weeks at one or the other store. That’s a little less than $4,000 a year by one person that is leaving the city of Chicago. If there are just 250 others like me, that’s $1 million in retail sales a year leaving the city. The parking lot is always filled with cars with IL plates, so I would guess there are more than 250 others like me.

Gas costs at least 50 cents per gallon less too over the state line and with the mileage my car gets, the savings in the gas price alone pays for the trip.

I don’t bother either with restaurants that do not have their own parking lot, like former faves Nookies and Resi’s Bierstube. Instead I choose competitors like Ann Sather’s and Mirabel. But mostly, I leave the city altogether for the suburbs where people are not hassled and nickled and dimed to death for every little thing.

If I could sell my condo, I would move out of Chicago and Illinois. Life here is no longer enjoyable. I’d rather be in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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