Paradise Gone

Don’t spend that 80 cents in one place, city of Chicago.

Noticed something else. 80 cents divided by $7.40 is 10.8%. That is a rather high sales tax rate. The sales tax here in Ballwin, suburban St. Louis, is 7.925%, and even in the city of St. Louis, it’s 8.5%.

@stonegatherer

Needless to say, there are no liquor or alcohol surtaxes in Missouri.

Chicago, like a lot of cities charge a Meals tax in added to the regular sales tax. Heck, a little bitty town in my neck of the woods just ran an article in the local paper that the town gets more revenue from the meals tax than they do from property taxes. (And they don’t have anything close to fine dining–mostly fast food and diners).