Lake County, Illinois Board Democrats inflict more pain at the gas pump.

With gas prices already at $3.50 a gallon and rising in Lake County, Illinois this week, the county board (nearly all Democrats after the previous election) voted to raise gas prices another 4 cents a gallon by opting to add a county tax. The tax increase will go into effect on July 1st.

Like most Democrat taxes, they refused to promise that we’ve seen the worst of it yet, because they had previously been considering an 8 cent per gallon hike, but for some reason determined that with record unemployment in the area, they couldn’t survive the optics.

I asked my mother what gas prices are in Indiana, and she told me she paid $2.79 a gallon today.

With the price of gas already being 36 cents per gallon cheaper just an 8 mile drive up the road at the BP in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, that would signify that the spread will be 40 cents per gallon shortly, and very nearly all of that being Illinois taxes.

I go through about 40 gallons on an average month. Even if I have to make a couple of round trips to the state line costing me some fuel, I’d still be saving a net total of $130 a year in tax to go up there every now and then, and that’s assuming that things don’t get even worse down here.

Where will the tax money go? Lake County says it’ll go to road construction, but fat chance. Most of the roads that I have to drive on in the city I live in are so bad that I’m in the shop all the time buying new suspension parts for my car.

It’s probably really going to the pension mess or some corrupt foul bureaucrat that’s currently “working” in the government and figuring out how to torture us with things like this.

Please join me in extending a big middle finger to the Lake County Democratic Party and buying your gas in Wisconsin if you’re close.

The worst part of this tax grab by the Democrats, their latest one, is that like most of the times they go digging around in other people’s pockets for money, it doesn’t actually hurt rich people that much at all.

Rich people are out driving around in either an EV or a fuel efficient model made in the last few years.

The poor, working class people who the Democrats often con out of their votes are the ones who see more of their income being lost into a black hole, never to benefit from it again.

They’re out there driving around in some clunker, just trying to get to work and back, pick up some groceries….probably with their engine far more out of tune than mine, and it’s just guzzling the gas faster than you can fill the tank back up.

The worst part is they’d have plenty of money for the roads, but instead they divert gas tax money to empty buses that destroy the roads and empty commuter trains that have nobody on them these days due to COVID.