Congestion pricing in Chicago: Be clear or beware – Opinion – Crain’s

If congestion pricing’s main objective is to fill a general budget deficit, then it is simply another tax.  If that is the reason for it, let’s not wrap it in the virtue of reducing congestion in downtown. The brief life of the county’s tax on sugary drinks should have taught us that lesson. Without the proper groundwork, congestion pricing will amount to little more than an unavoidable tax levied on those who, by choice or necessity, drive into the city for work or play.