City Council Voting On Daley's Budget

Chicago Tribune:

The Chicago City Council is scheduled to vote today on Mayor Richard Daley's 2009 budget proposal, which is designed to address what he called the worst financial crisis of his 20 years in office.

The $6 billion plan calls for cutting no more than 770 jobs from the City Hall payroll. Daley also wants to raise a slew of taxes and fees to plug a $469 million budget shortfall, which he has blamed largely on falling revenues.

Among the revenue-raising proposals in the budget is a plan to use the Denver boot on cars with two parking tickets that are a year or more old. Currently, only cars with three tickets get booted.

The city also plans to increase downtown daily garage parking taxes to $3 from $2.25, increase taxes on tickets to sporting events and theaters by one percentage point and enact a new annual fee on private garbage Dumpsters for businesses and larger condominium and apartment complexes.

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Comments

[BSERIUS]

Doesn't Chicago have the highest sales tax in the country at 10.25%... didn't the property taxes double?And there is still shortfalls? And you guys bought that Change and Hope won't tax everyone in the country more? Cut staffs , perks , entitlements and spending

[DontJustFollow]

Lets count the successful cities that are run by democrats . . . Well how about the states then . . .
OK OK I am sure it will all change when the Obama gravy train starts running -

[Huffpoor]

Our snow will never get plowed again, will it? Isn't it enough that recycling is picked up once every six weeks? Garbage selectively picked up? You can wait forty minutes to catch the Damen bus or forty-five minutes to catch the 77 down Belmont. Addison has a fancy new train station, but the train comes through only three times an hour.

This is just the icing on the cake, otherwise known as my frustration by 730am. Yet we have two taxes on bottled water, a State Leg that throws citizens in the pot for deals with ComEd and People's Gas, and soon it's going to cost less to fill up your car, sit in traffic to park in a Loop garage than it will be to take a week's worth of round trip rides on the L to work.

Yeah, Chicago's a city that works! So long as you don't ask a resident.

[47th]

The only thing I can add to this great post is"Dump Daley"!