Column: Forget pump stickers, let’s get detailed receipts – Northwest Herald

"I don’t expect retailers to disclose profit margins, and I don’t scrutinize every receipt. Yet while property tax bills are extremely informative, everyday receipts seem intentionally devoid of details. We’d all be much better informed by knowing, to the penny, how much of each purchase goes to each jurisdiction."
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Pat S.
2 years ago

Great idea – break down those gas receipts so we know which government entities (in Illinois we have SO many!) are picking our pockets.

riverbender
2 years ago

While one can admire the receipt proposal it won’t work in Illinois. What good does a receipt do when Illinois voters are either too stupid, to lazy or too uneducated to read them. Past Illinois election results are evedence of all of the aformentioned. Nice try ut it won’t work in illinois.

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