Rockford’s buses now subsidized by Chicago taxpayers!

January 17th, 2008 at 10:22pm Chuck Sweeny

Just so you know the facts:

Certain local Republican state senators and House members are sure to start bloviating about big, bad Chicago stealing all our cookies, so I wanted to point out a little known fact that they won’t tell you about:

The mass transit funding bill passed Thursday by the legislature boosts funding for downstate mass transit districts. That means $1.2 million more for Rockford Mass Transit.

Chicagoland taxpayers are funding the increase through an increase in their sales tax and a tax on real-estate transfers inĀ  Chicago.

So, Chicagoans are directly subsidizing our bus service with their taxes.

Just so you know the facts before the disinformation campaign starts.

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