Thanks, Cook County Board President Stroger, for showing everyone what you were really about (don't worry, though; the monolithic black vote will keep you in office because you are "one of them"). I give a hearty thank you to the rest of the Board for having to common sense to kill what would have been a crippling tax increase. Here's the whole (short) article:
The Cook County Board of Commissioners shot down a series of small tax increases Wednesday.
Along the way, board President Todd Stroger's plan to hike the sales tax by 2 percentage points died an unofficial death.
Still left unresolved is how to fill a $238 million hole in a budget that must be passed by Feb. 28 -- or risk a shutdown of county government.
Next week, elected officials will be asked to show how they will cut 10 percent from their budgets to make ends meet.
That reduction comes on the heels of 17 percent budget cuts last year.
So there were 17 percent cuts last year, and the county didn't collapse into a hell like in Mad Max. Why not try cutting 10 percent again? Maybe they could stop giving away prescriptions at county hospitals, or they could try eliminating wasteful and unnecessary departments (as I've detailed previously).
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