The City of DeKalb needs money. The city has something like 10 gas stations. It also delivers residential parking permits for free :
https://www.cityofdekalb.com/1192/Residential-Parking-Permits
But instead, they are seriously considering a sales tax on GROCERIES 🤦
Wealthy, in DeKalb? You won’t get any revenue that way. DeKalb is mostly just a university town. A lot of the people who go to that university commute from Rockford or the Chicago suburbs.
Seems like it’s going to affect more than DeKalb, see the article title.
Regardless, I lived in a rural university town myself in the past - much more rural than DeKalb. There were plenty of rich people tucked away in their massive homes. At least enough to raise their taxes just a bit to generate 800k of revenue.
Tax literally anything instead of food, I say - groceries are high enough and not everybody struggling qualifies for food stamps.
You need to be careful though. The rich people in DeKalb are the farmers. Taxing them is taxing food.