Column: Sweetened beverage tax just too burdensome
After strong pressure from the public, the Cook County penny-an-ounce sweetened beverage tax has been repealed.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle was not pleased and now wonders how the county’s budget will be balanced without the projected revenue from the tax.
“Over the next six weeks before the end of the fiscal year, we’re going to have to work very closely with our separately elected officials and our commissioners to present a balanced budget and I can’t say anything is off the table,” Preckwinkle said.
Local residents found this tax to be excessive and are just plain tired of paying more and more on whatever governing bodies deem as taxable.