Use any of the services listed below?
Expect to pay 6.25% more for them, if the House passes the Senate income and sales tax hike bill. And, that’s assuming local governments don’t lay on their 1 to 1.75% (Crystal Lake and Algonquin) municipal sales tax.
Warehousing and storage
Travel agent services
Carpet and upholstery cleaning services
Dating services
Dry cleaning and laundry, except coin-operated
Consumer goods rental
Linen supply
Other business services, including copy shops
Coin operated video games and pinball machines
Admission to spectator sports (excluding horsetracks)
Admission to cultural events
Billiard Parlors
Scenic and sightseeing transportation
Unscheduled chartered passenger air transportation
Income from intrastate transportation of persons
Household goods storage
Cold storage
Gift and package wrapping service
Laundry and dry cleaning services, coin-operated
Other services to buildings and dwellings
Water softening and conditioning
Internet Service Providers
Short term auto rental
Information Services
Amusement park admission and rides
Circuses and fairs — admission and games
Rental of video tapes for home viewing
This is, of course, in addtiion to the 67% income tax hike the Senate Democrats passed.
You can contact your legislator by calling 217-782-2000. That’s the state switchboard.
Crystal Lake’s Vogue Cleaners is one of the service businesses that Democrats want to collect sales taxes for state government.
The Health Bridge health club is Centegra’s on Algonquin Road in Huntley.
Wickham Interiors is already taxed on what it sells. Now Lynn will be taxed on her interior decoration advice.
The Brunswick Zone is in Algonquin.
The two women are playing golf at the Crystal Lake Country Club.
The taxis are at the Crystal Lake train station.
Mark Indyke’s Route 47 Woodstock pet grooming service, Dog in Suds, will be taxed.
The Showplace theater is not in Crystal Lake. It is in the development that Chicago Alderman Ike Carothers is charged with taking a bribe to help zone.
The lawn service truck is on Spruce Lane near South Grade School in Crystal Lake.
The dragon is on top of the mini-storage facility in Crystal Lake near Teddy’s Liquors.
The flooded marina is on the Chain of Lakes.
The tug boat with a winch is speeding to a job on Wonder Lake.
The laundromat, used mainly by poor folks, is on Route 14 across from Andy’s Family Restaurant in Crystal Lake.
The carnival ride is at Lakeside Center in McHenry County.