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New county sales tax for museums?

Posted on May 14, 2006

Chicago Sun-Times

This article reviews a Civic Federation task force’s recommendations for improving public funding of area cultural institutions. It focuses primarily on the effects of the proposed concurrent 0.25% increase in sales taxes and $26 million decrease in property tax levies to fund the institutions and notes that according to the Federation, a sales tax is fairer because it is based upon one’s ability to buy.