Caption contest!
Thursday, Jul 11, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller
* This meme is going around…
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* Illinois will soon tax trade-in car value, even for out-of-state purchases: Beginning in 2020, a new law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker will apply Illinois’ sales tax to any traded-in vehicle’s worth over $10,000. That means trading in a $30,000 car for one worth $60,000 will cost the customer an extra $1,200 in additional sales taxes.
- Blue Dog Dem - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:24 pm:
Priceless.
- Blue Dog Dem - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:24 pm:
Appropriate.
- @misterjayem - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:26 pm:
If we could tax sour grapes, this state wouldn’t have a revenue problem.
– MrJM
- Fax Machine - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:28 pm:
I took out my toilets so you know I didn’t flush him down.
- Almost the weekend - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:31 pm:
Social media connecting Chicago and Southern Illinois one post at a time.
- phocion - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:38 pm:
“Yes We Can!”
- Bavette - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:40 pm:
Spot on.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:40 pm:
=If we could tax sour grapes, this state wouldn’t have a revenue problem.
– MrJM=
Hall of Fame comment. Best ever maybe? At least in the team picture. The internet should be shut down now.
- ChrisB - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:42 pm:
“Look. It’s time for alligators to pay their fair share. Our new tax brackets are only going to affect the 3% of alligators that can afford to live in lagoons like the one in Humboldt Park. The rest of the alligators in this state are going to see a tax decrease.”
- Cubs in '16 - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:46 pm:
“The alligator didn’t do anything improper ok? The lagoon IS the toilet…”
- Ron Burgundy - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:47 pm:
Confederate Railroad? I don’t own that, do I?
- Duke of Normandy - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:49 pm:
So much more tasteful and funny than the recent memes I’ve seen comparing JB to Stalin, or George III.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:50 pm:
==Can we tax that?==
Depends. Is the alligator retired?
- Dotnonymous - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:51 pm:
- @misterjayem - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:26 pm:
If we could tax sour grapes, this state wouldn’t have a revenue problem.
– MrJM
Rim Shot!…Mr.JM is one clever fellow.
- Lucky Pierre - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:52 pm:
If it moves, tax it
It is still moving, regulate it
If it is stops moving, subsidize it
- Grandson of Man - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:54 pm:
Memes don’t vote.
- Honeybear - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 12:55 pm:
No sir, we can’t tax it
but….
We can regulate it and charge fees like several other states.
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/wildlife/alligator-hunting.
- Huh? - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:03 pm:
Ya know, alligator make a nice leather for hand bags and high end shoes. So a luxury tax is the way to go.
- Donnie Elgin - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:13 pm:
The tax investiGator
- Huh? - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:13 pm:
Does Alligator Bob have a trapping license? Isn’t the alligator trapping season in September?
- zatoichi - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:15 pm:
Hey, easy down. That gator’ll be at the Mayor’s booth at Taste tomorrow. I am serving. $5 a bite. Be there.
- Stuntman Bob's Brother - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:24 pm:
“Likely a southern, Confederate gator - shoot on sight”
- Colin O'Scopy - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:32 pm:
Caption: “I am a played out, tired trope meme.”
I get it. People don’t like taxes. I don’t either. But c’mon. I have yet to see a viable plan by naysayers to fix the problems that require actual revenue. Cutting our way out of this situation is neither feasible nor honest.
How do you propose we pay for crumbling bridges? Some of the bridges in this state require you to close your eyes and pray they don’t collapse from underneath you. And don’t get me started on the roads here. I have been to Costa Rica where the roads are notoriously bad. Well, not as bad as some Chicago streets. I’d say the moon has better driving conditions than some of our highways.
Pension shortfalls? Where is that revenue gonna come from? Its a real problem and its today’s problem.
Back log of unpaid bills? It’s criminal that some small and medium sized businesses have to wait over a year to get paid. Shameful. But again, where is the revenue coming from if not new taxes?
I could go on but why bother? John Kass, Dan Proft, Kristen McQueary, the Triumvirate of Illinois Haters, want to scream from the top of there lungs how broke this state is and then gut with a rusty knife anyone who dares to make a move to actually fix this mess. Sigh.
- Norseman - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:32 pm:
The GOP rallies arounds the alligator. Shouting that they support the right for alligators to bite whom and what they choose free from government interference.
- Seats - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:34 pm:
Will apply Illinois’ sales tax to any traded-in vehicle’s worth over $10,000. That means trading in a $30,000.
Curious is he using a graduated sales tax here? On said $30,000 dollar trade in, would only $20,000 dollars of the value be taxed or the full 30k?
Otherwise getting a value of 10,300 would be worse than getting a 9,999 trade in value.
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:34 pm:
I say we tax the bejeezus out of the alligator (and get it a subscription to the IPI) so it gets so fed up and leaves the state and moves to Indiana.
- thechampaignlife - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:47 pm:
I do not understand the car trade-in tax. A $30K car is taxed at the time of purchase for the full $30K. You then buy a $40K car 3 years later and pay the tax on the full $40K. Then you pay a tax on the $15K trade-in value of the old car? So the original car was taxed essentially at a $45K value (or $35K if it is just the amount over $10K)?
Or did the $40K car only get taxed at $25K value ($40K-$15K trade-in), and they are eliminating that exclusion? If so, does that mean the person buying the $15K car does not pay any tax on that transaction? That would be fair, since that car had already been taxed at a higher value during the initial sale.
- Pick a Name - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 1:56 pm:
Oh the irony that the guv tried to save .000097 of his wealth by pulling the toilets and then he turns around and attempts to tax anything he can find on the general population.
- Boat captain - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:11 pm:
It is already taxed in a way in Illinois. At the Riverdock restaurant in Hardin, IL they serve alligator. So, when you pay your bill the tax could be said to have been on alligator.
- Chicago Cynic - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:19 pm:
How about we tax the gator a buck a tooth?
- notsosure - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:26 pm:
Champaign, the general rule is that sales tax applies any time you buy anything, measured by the amount paid, whether that amount is in pennies, cyber-currency, or another asset. Until 12/31/19, though, if you trade in a car, that doesn’t count towards the purchase price of another car, when you’re figuring out the tax. So your second example: $40K car less $15K trade-in means tax on just the $25K. The purchaser of the $15K car won’t have to pay tax, usually, because you’re probably not a licensed retailer, and they’re probably buying it to resell anyway (and there’s no sales tax when a retailer buys inventory). After 1/1/2020, though, only $10K of the trade-in gets excluded, so the tax due on your example will be calculated on $30K instead of $25K.
- Jose Abreu's Next Homerun - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:26 pm:
Madigan & Getzendanner is filing a lagoon property tax appeal for Chance The Snapper until Benny the Bull nets him out.
- OneMan - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:52 pm:
Can we get it to gamble and buy some pot?
It’s a caption contest folks, lighten up…
- Big Rock - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 2:54 pm:
Why not? They tax Crocs.
- SAP - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 3:11 pm:
Fix our bridges of the alligator will get you.
- Practical Politics - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 3:18 pm:
Pritzker told me that alligator tastes like chicken.
- SAP - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 3:20 pm:
Any truth to the rumor that Channel 7 has instituted a CODE GREEN?
- Looking down the Road - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 3:33 pm:
Need to create a new division in IDOR - shouldn’t take more than 20-25 staffers to keep up with the alligator tax. Just sayin…
- Boone's is Back - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 3:36 pm:
Tax it and then extend the foie gras ban to alligator meat.
- A guy - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 4:53 pm:
Someone will have to tell me if it crawled up through their toilet, because, you know….
- work in progress - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 5:36 pm:
I propose a meme tax.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Jul 11, 19 @ 6:49 pm:
As a bald guy, I say Illinois should tax hairlines like Pritzker’s. The closer it is to a man’s eyebrows, the higher the tax.
Seems fair to me.
- Stuntman Bob's Brother - Friday, Jul 12, 19 @ 2:48 pm:
“Mama says gators are ornery ’cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush”