Stroger Tax to Return?

Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer (10th) tells Bill Cameron that raising the sales tax again is back on the table.

By Bill Cameron, WLS News

One of the tax hikes you hated the most may be making a comeback.

Listen to Bill’s report here:

Remember the widely hated Todd Stroger sales tax hike? County Board President Toni Preckwinkle rolled it back but now county finances are so dire, Cook County Commissioner Bridget Gainer (10th) tells Bill Cameron that raising the sales tax again is back on the table.

“To say it’s not on the table is silly because like I said there’s only a couple of things you can really look at,” Gainer said. ” I mean 80-percent of the budget at Cook County is personnel. We have 20,000 employees so it’s correctional officers at the jail, it’s nurses at the hospital, it’s people at the clinics.”

Meanwhile, Gainer says the recent “bro with no ho” remark made by U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is ridiculous, crass and crazy.