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AFSCME pressuring Cook County Commissioners to raise sales, alcohol, parking and cigarette taxes

By Chris Lentino
07/22/2017
AFSCME officials proposed seven tax increases for Cook County as a way to save union jobs, including an increase in the county sales tax, a new head tax and doubling the amusement tax to 6 percent, despite the county’s local tax burden already being among the highest in the nation.

TAGS: AFSCME: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, alcohol tax, cigarette tax, Cook County, sales tax, soda tax

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