A Little-Known Legal Loophole Has Scrambled State Efforts to Save Transit Agencies From Financial Disaster – Illinois Answers Project

$83 million of the roughly $193 million in transportation taxes collected last year by the collar counties around Cook was spent on cops and courts. It is all perfectly legal, thanks to a loophole written into state law at the behest of DuPage County leaders in 2008.
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9mm
6 months ago

Number one priority in DuPage is public safety? Assuming this isn’t posturing on the part of Deb, it just illustrates the trash that’s moved into the suburbs.

Fed Up Taxpayer
6 months ago

Good for them grabbing it when they could. Not the least bit surprising the tax was partly created to cover pensions. And the financially inept legislators are actually considering increasing Tier 2 benefits?

Joey Zamboni
6 months ago

‘Transportation tax’ used to fund courts & police…?

Makes perfect sense in (D) land…

taxpayer
6 months ago

This article apparently was posted on 10/28, so it doesn’t tell us what’s in the actual law passed on 10/31. But it is interesting to know that “RTA” sales tax money in DuPage is mainly spent on cops and roads.

David F
6 months ago

DuPage went into the toilet when Democrats took over, how typical..

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