Rent car in suburbs, pay Chicago?

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 24, 2009 | FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

[KrisKrinkle]

“Audits will be conducted. At least one is already under way. “

Under what legal pretense do they audit a company outside the City Limits?

[kickonly88]

I heard someone on WLS this morning say that he would be in favor of it if people in the suburbs would be allowed to vote in the city of Chicago’s mayoral race.

[ScottinVA]

“Under what legal pretense do they audit a company outside the City Limits?”

Legal pretense? Chicago? ROFL!!

[KrisKrinkle]

Don’t they usually pretend what they are doing is legal? :)

[FormerACLUmember]

And to think, the Crook County Chicago Machine now RUNS THE COUNTRY! WITH $1,000,000,000,000.00+ in "Stimulus" money to steal!

[TYVets]

Chicago is reaching into suburban pockets

Chicago is reaching into pockets in all directions to the state line, just like it always has under Mayor Daley 1 and Mayor Daley 2.

Unarmed peasants of Illinois are expected to pay the mayor's tithe yet their vote does not count.

Chicago patronage, the worst form of government.

[RonF]

So when I rented a car in Countryside to drive to Downers Grove because my car was in the shop at Berwyn, Chicago thinks I should have to prove all this to them to keep from paying taxes to them? Who the F does Dick Daley think he is? And why in God’s name would anyone else in government go along with this?

[RonF]

I’m still trying to figure out how Chicago gets their hands on the records of non-Chicago rentals.

[Vigilanteman]

Better yet, just have surrounding counties build a very high razor wired electric fence all around Chicago and keep all the inmates in.

Remember the old Ernest Borgnine movie?

[Luke21]

They already have toll booths every five feet up there.

[virgil]

I think so too. The suburbs should fight back. Nothing should go in or out of chicago without a toll tax paid to the suburbs, with each suburb charging it’s own tax. I would love it. Teach this petty dictator a lesson

[PhilCollins]

Enterprise doesn’t need to sue. They should refuse to charge the tax.

I researched the city budget and found that according to the budget estimates, on the city government website, the city has many city sales taxes. Some of them can be avoided, by conducting business in other towns. These taxes are the automatic amusement device tax, cigarette tax, employers’ expense tax, home rule municipal retailers’ occupation tax, hotel accommodation tax, liquor tax, motor fuel tax, motor vehicle lessor tax, municipal automobile renting occupation tax, municipal automobile renting use tax, municipal hotel operators’ occupation tax, off-track betting tax and admission fee, parking tax, personal property lease transaction tax, restaurant and other places for eating tax, soft drink tax, and vehicle fuel tax. If you think that the city government receives enough of your money, please conduct more business, in other towns.