State is real villain for high sales taxes

During March, I heard many people throughout the Chicago area complain about the budget that the Cook County Board passed because the budget increased the county sales tax rate from 0.75 percent to 1.75 percent.

The state sales tax rate is 6.25 percent, so everyone who is angry at the Cook County Board should be more mad at all of the state legislators who have voted for increasing the state sales tax rate.

I hope that, before the general election, each Illinois voter will research his or her state legislators and find whether the legislator ever voted for tax increases. Every legislator who voted for the increases should lose.

Phil Collins

Chicago