cbs2chicago.com - Alderman Wants To Tax Bottled Water
This illustrates the point I've been making about the advantage cities have over HOAs. With this general "police power" and home rule, they can conjure up a tax on just about anything and anybody whenever they need more money. Now it is a "sin tax" on a new vice created by environmentalists: drinking bottled water. What next? Why not a tax on meat? (Save the rain forests!) How about a quarter for every quarter pounder? Or maybe on leather (Save the animals!). Or taking too many showers? (Save the water!) The Chicago Tribune today even (half-jokingly) proposed a huge tax on driving SUVs into the city.