When talking with my mom today I learned that in Chicago the sales tax is going to go up to 10% from the pervious 8.75% and this just seems outreageous to me. Also that Chicago has the highest sales tax of any other large city in America! Paying 10% sales tax seems so high to me and i'm not even a full consumer of products. But just think if someone were to buy a $35,000 car just the tax on that would be $3,500!! I can't believe sales tax can be so high when other cities like Las Vegas don't have any sales tax at all. Just think as a kid i used to save up $3.00 to ride my bike to Walgreens and buy candy. And now if i kid were to do that and buy 3 candy bars at 99C the total would come to $3.30 not even a quarter could cover tax. Now i know i sound like a grandparent complaining about "these days" and it doesn't seem like that much but in the long one just one american is spending thousands of dollars a year on sales tax and for chicgago to have the highest sales tax today seems like a big con to living around here.
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