Why don't they build an ice skating rink
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Are you referencing Parks and Recreation?
How about taxing the wealthy instead of food? Taxing cars is nice too.
Wealthy, in DeKalb? You won't get any revenue that way. DeKalb is mostly just a university town. A lot of the people who go to that university commute from Rockford or the Chicago suburbs.
Northern Illinois leaders consider reinstating grocery sales tax at local level
Seems like it's going to affect more than DeKalb, see the article title.
Regardless, I lived in a rural university town myself in the past - much more rural than DeKalb. There were plenty of rich people tucked away in their massive homes. At least enough to raise their taxes just a bit to generate 800k of revenue.
Tax literally anything instead of food, I say - groceries are high enough and not everybody struggling qualifies for food stamps.
You need to be careful though. The rich people in DeKalb are the farmers. Taxing them is taxing food.
Is local democracy functional in that city? Or is it one of those places where incumbents have made themselves impossible to remove?
Sounds like they copied their plans from the Party Against Citizens (a dutch comedy satire sketch, name says it all)
Nvm, they wouldn't propose something instead of other taxes
Since so many in the comments didn't seem to read, the tl:dr is:
- There is currently a statewide sales tax in Illinois on groceries of 1% with some items (alcohol, candy etc.) exempt and taxed at the higher state sales tax rate
- The state is set to end this tax on 1/1/2026 but local municipalities can continue it
- Dekalb expects that loss of tax revenue to be impactful and is considering it at the local level
There are likely other ways they could make up the revenue but if they wouldn't be implementing a new tax, just keeping the existing one going at a local level.
I'm not familiar with Dekalb but I went to college in a college town where the population doubled during the academic year. There were taxes and fees of higher rates designed to impact the student residents more than locals to make up for the loss of residents during the off time.
Forget sprawl, groceries are driving the infrastructure costs. Eat less, then we need to build less? /s
Devil's advocate: The city needs money for services for everyone, cars aren't used by everyone but everyone eats.
Counterpoint: fuck cars.
Cars aren't used by everyone but everyone paid to have road maintained.
So evenly tax everyone to support everyone instead of proportionally (more money, more car) tax people to support everyone?
Disagree
Groceries, such an old fashioned word. They are saying these days though, these groceries.
Nowhere in that does it mention parking or gas taxes. Where did you pull that from?
From the article:
On Wednesday night, DeKalb County Board members began considering a county-wide 1% grocery tax.
It appears they changed the article contents? I looked and couldn't find anything about making a parking fee or gas tax. Only that the state is removing a 1% grocery tax and is giving each county the option of keeping or removing the tax.
Maybe there's another article or meeting minutes?
DeKalb is really shitty (sorry, that was out-of-pocket, I take it back)