Aaron Shepley Tax Hike Day

It’s July 1st, so it must be

Aaron Shepley
Tax Hike Day
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This is the day that Crystal Lake Piraty Captain, er, Mayor Aaron Shepley’s decision to raise the city sales tax goes into effect.

Up 75%!

Read the appropriate verses to the tune of Steve Goodman’s “Lincoln Park Pirates” in memory of the yesterdays when Crystal Lake’s sales tax was three-quarters of a percent cheaper.

If Crystal Lake falls into decline, this day will be the turning point.

The day the city sales tax went from 1% to 1.75%.

People won’t be throwing parades in honor of this act by the Shepley-led Crystal Lake City Council.

I doubt the Northwest Herald will give the tax hike much play.

Certainly not as much as the Chicago Tribune is giving what it calls “Your Stroger-Daley Tax.”

Who’s going to be helped by the sales tax hike?

Mainly developers.

The Main Street Tax Increment Financing district and the Vulcan Lakes TIF weren’t enough of a tax hike for everyone in McHenry County to help the developers of those properties.

There was and is still an alternative to the hiking of the city sales tax to make Vulcan Lakes usable for recreation.

Don’t believe me?

Read this article:

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The sales tax rates for June and July are from the Illinois Department of Revenue web site.


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