McHenry County Gas Tax Hikers

A trip down memory lane.

Around 1991 the Illinois General Assembly gave some counties, one being McHenry, the right to impose a local Motor Fuel Tax of up to four cents a gallon.

Look what I found in my basement “archives.”

It’s a flyer from a group from the late 1990’s named T.A.R.G.E.T., standing for Taxpayers Against Rampant Growith and Exhorbitant Taxation.

McHenry County was growing like a weed then and it did not take a genious to figure out that growth did not pay its own way.

One recruitment tool was the following piece:

Two cents per gallon was imposed in 1991 and another two cents in 1998.

Only one Board member who voted in favor is still on the County Board, John Jung.

This past year the General Assembly gave other counties the power to impose similar gas taxes.

Will County is now having a vibrant debate on whether to do so or not.


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McHenry County Gas Tax Hikers — 4 Comments

  1. I remember the 1998 county board vote. “Absent for the vote”, Don Brewer was at that meeting, but got up and walked out of the room in time for the vote to be taken.

    He’s long gone from the board, but him walking out of the county board room as the vote was about to be taken is something I remember 21 years later.

  2. I never had a problem with the McHenry County gas tax, as I trusted it would be used properly.

    As for the doubling of the state gas tax, I have complete confidence it will be wasted.

    Last week unleaded regular in the county averaged $2.74
    Over the border in Wisconsin, $2.29

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