Not your birthday hat.

Your thinking cap.

I told you you can’t get rid of Mayor Aaron Shepley’s 75% Crystal Lake Sales Tax Hike by covering it up.

You say you don’t know where it is?

Well, we who shop in Crystal Lake need help.

The RTA is going to triple its quarter of one percent sales tax tomorrow.

The total rate is 6.5% today. 7% tomorrow.

Not much we can do about that since the Democrats imposed it on our still Republican county.

Oh, they had help from those misguided DuPage County Republicans like State’s Attorney Joe Birkett, County Board Chairman Robert Schillerstrom and those three GOP state senators who sold out the other collar counties to please Birkett and Schillerstrom.

And, that’s before Mayor Aaron Shepley’s 75% city sales tax hike takes effect on July 1st.

What to do.

That’s the question.

Are you sure you can’t find your thinking cap?