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Illinois Republican lawmakers introduce a bill for a 6-month gas sales tax pause – WGLT (NPR at ISU)
State Rep. Ryan Spain said now the revenue from the tax is being moved from downstate to Chicago transit. He added the bill can work with the budget because Chicago did not need as much money as they received. “This sales tax that I'm speaking about was promised as a delivery into the Road Fund,” Spain said. “Those dollars have now been rescinded and transferred beginning on July one to fund Chicago land transit.”
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
This is HB4211 if one wishes to support it by creating a witness slip. It would likely reduce gas prices by about $0.20 per gallon. Filing a witness slip does not require that you appear or that you provide a rational for your support of the bill. Here are instructions for filing a witness slip: https://www.ilchiefs.org/filing-a-witness-slip
The money you save will be your own!
Pritzker will never do that. He needs the gas tax to fund illegals, fraud, and far left policy spending. The gas tax is supposed to be used on roads, not left political spending. IL roads are in terrible shape.
What they need to do is REPEAL the automatic increases and make the legislature vote on every increase again.
But will that pause cause the roads to go to shit and ruin the smooth as ice roads we have now ? Sent from the garage getting wheels aligned ,every 3 months