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Not taxing online purchases is fair to your local retailers,,how?
Not sure if you learned this yet, but life isn't fair and many times so is business. If business was fair, then Chinese and Mexican workers would make as much as American workers. Our business regulation would be as loose as China's. The flat tax would work! Etc. But business is not like that. In order to stay in business businessmen need to look for advantages. Avoiding taxation is one of them!
Cook County has a 10% sales tax and 12% prepared foods sales tax. Many retailers have left Cook for neighboring Lake and Kane, where the sales tax is 7% (still pretty high). Is it FAIR that Cook County businesses pay a much higher sales tax?
You don't seem to understand the difference between local sales tax and state sales tax. I realize that at the cash register you don't care how much is local and how much is state, but if you're the governor you do.
Very true. Here is what I care about, when I purchase things in Cook County I pay 10%, when I take my family out to dinner in Cook County I pay 12%, when I go to the surrounding county's I pay 7%!
I don't blame Quinn for the Sale tax increase. I first blame Stroger, the worst Cook County Board President its Cook's history and Perwinkle, who ran NIGHT AND DAY on getting rid to the County sale tax increase. In one of her speech she stated she would get rid of it day one. Yet on day one she said she won't do it immediately and will maybe get rid of it in three years!!! Politician going back on campaign promises, say it ain't so!