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You’ll pay more as city services are cut back (Taxes? No! But just as well to be)

November 20, 2008 · 4 Comments

* Extend amusement tax to include 135,000 Chicagoans who get their cable TV by installing a satellite dish.

*Raise $9 million by requiring businesses and residential high-rises to purchase annual licenses for their garbage containers at a cost of $80 to $780.

* Increase the public vehicle license fee paid by limousines and charter buses from $200 to $500 from $100.

* Increase parking tax — from $2.25 to $3 — on motorists who pay more than $12 to park.

 * Double daily library fines from 10 cents to 20 cents

* Raise daily and annual fees for merchants at Maxwell Street market to save jumping jack program for neighborhood festivals.

* Raise residential permit parking guest passes from $10 to $16 for a book of 30.

* Raise ambulance fees from $325 and $8 a mile to $600 and $13 a mile for basic life support; from $400 and $8 a mile to $700 and $13 a mile for advanced life support. Nonresidents will pay $100 more on top of that.

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Taxes will be on the rise across America for at least the next 4 years! Is this what the American people was hoping for in the way of change?

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