For your consideration: Why Do We Pay So Much For Government? Scenario 2: 10.25%.

Well, that’s the sales tax you’re paying in Cook County, IL pretty soon. For those of you not from the Midwest, Cook County is the home of Chicago, IL.

So, Chicagoans are paying the highest sales tax of anyone in the country. What are they getting for this 10.25%?

We can tell you one thing:

In Chicago, you can find some of the crappiest public schools where they’ll pay for your teaching certificate if you agree to teach for two years in one of the crappy schools in the crappiest public school system in Illinois. Good luck.

You’re already paying some high property taxes in Cook County. Look up the salaries of your Cook County administrators too. Look at the high school graduation rates of students in the county. Look at per capita income.

Ask yourself:

Why are Chicago and Cook County so damn great that people there need to pay the highest sales tax in the country just for the privilege of living on the boarders of Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan?

The Money Kings strongly recommend that you people of Cook County vote your politicians out of office. You got no ocean. You got no mountain views. You got no Broadway. What do you have? Bars in Wrigleyville?

Come on.

Good luck out there.

Keywords: law, government, money, freedom, taxes, benefits, costs

For your consideration: Why Do We Pay So Much For Government? Scenario 1: Fireworks.

We just got a mailer to buy fireworks today over in Indiana. It’s illegal to have fireworks or light fireworks in Illinois. But obviously it’s not illegal to advertise to Illinoisans for fireworks. Where the heck are we going to take them after we buy them? A park in Indiana, where’s it’s probably illegal to light them OR our homes in Illinois.

THEN I find out that some cops in Illinois just busted some guy for owning like 39K in fireworks and selling them out of his house. It was a sting based off a hot tip.

So, we just paid cops to bust a guy in Illinois for fireworks AND it’s legal for Indianans to advertise to us to go buy fireworks in their state, but it’s illegal for us to own them here?

Wouldn’t it save us all money and time if cops weren’t paid to go bust people for laws that should just be universal across states? Giving states the “freedom” to do as they choose with this issue, just creates and environment for more crime to occur — not less. Our government is supposed to protect us, correct? How are we benefiting from this scenario on the Illinois side? All The Money Kings see is tax dollars out the door . . .

Good luck out there.

Keywords: law, government, money, freedom, taxes, benefits, costs