That's so little compared to as example pretty much the whole of Europe, I think I go to Chicago!

It's confusing how they put the taxes on some single things like now with Netflix and the likes and how every city seems to can do their own stuff in USA  (in other countries taxes are the same in the whole country and not different from place to place) but in general it's still much less as here. 

It's not every city by a long shot with things like this. Only a select few make these sorts of changes, and usually it's to test the waters for a statewide change.

That said, every city generally does have slightly different laws and such, to fit the situations. It's just the way things work on this side of the pond lol

To all of you saying how you already pay for stuff like this, that's the point! We don't want to have more taxes like other countries and liberals, no matter how often they claim to be fighting for the working people, continue to tax them on stuff like this. I thought they only liked to tax the rich? Apparently I'm rich because I have Playstation Plus lol

I never eat at amusement parks, cinemas, or sporting events as those are places that charge 3-5 times normal pricing.

Quite the oxymoron, huh?  "WE are for the little guy, but we're going to find every little way to tax the little guy.  Oh, and when we are only taxing the rich companies, we are fully aware that they will pass part of the cost onto the little guy in the form of higher prices.  Oh, and continue ignoring the fact we are using our position in office to become rich and help out our rich buddies.  GO LITTLE GUYS!"

Oh no, not tax! We're all dooooooooomed!

Does that 9% stack with the Illinois state sales tax? Or is that just the combined local + amusement + state?

If it stacks... well, that's pretty bad. I believe that would put the sales tax at around 18% total for amusement.

If not, 9% sucks, but isn't horrible. That's the sales tax rate in my state for everything but food.

I don't see a problem. Well, I do see a problem in that most Americans don't want to pay taxes on anything, and then complain about costs of medical treatments or have enormous student loan debts.

I pay a 25% tax on everything. Sure, it's a lot, and it would be nice to pay less, but I know that I can get free medical assistance for anything, free prescription medicine, free schools and universities and books for them, free dentist visits etc.

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I agree. the thing that is absurd is often we have poorer brackets of people being charged the same percentages as the ultra rich and elite. if those with billions of dollars were just taxed like 50% of all of their income than their wouldn't even need to be many taxes for the poor. would that be fair? in my eyes, because no one should be infinitely wealthy while others struggle

in the end though to encourage higher taxes is to encourage larger government which is unnecessary in a capitalist economy to a certain extent. the economy shouldn't be so strongly connected to the government and the government should not be essentially a business itself. EVERY single economic transaction shouldn't be money into the governments pockets

privatize education, privatize business, privatize it all. we're headed to a socialistic society where everything is monitered and freedoms are limited so that in exchange everyone can have more 'equality' and so everything is circular and that the people pay the government so the government can help the people. it's not a terrible concept idealy but it in the end hurts freedoms because all citizens are forced into the system and the reality is that the government is far from efficient in how it handles funds