* 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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boudicabpi // November 20, 2008 at 10:06 am
I have said and heard it said that “change” is all you will have left in your pocket if Obama were to be elected. He has already stated his plan to bankrupt the coal industry. I posted this on 11/2 in under
Obama will bankrupt the coal industry and then everyone else.
goodtimepolitics // November 20, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Yes we are in for a bumpy road with the democrats in control of the mule and wagons!
lukemcgook // November 21, 2008 at 9:49 am
We *hope* we have some *change* left.
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