'POLITICAL STUNT'? Mayor Lightfoot will roll back her 3-cents-a-gallon gas tax increase temporarily to provide relief for motorists squeezed by skyrocketing gas prices, however, an influential alderperson warned the temporary break would be viewed as a “political stunt.”
, even though an influential alderperson warned the temporary break would be viewed as a "political stunt."
Finance Committee Chairman Scott Waguespack added, "It is mostly helping those people that are in need of saving every penny they can during the price surge."The city’s gas tax, currently 8 cents a gallon, generates $64.9 million a year for snow removal, street pavement, bridge maintenance and related personnel costs. Forfeiting the 3 cents a gallon increase for the remainder of the year would cost the city roughly $18 million.
A few months after Lightfoot took office, Wilson said he had "no relationship with the mayor at all." He accused Lightfoot of ignoring his calls and sending him text messages that said she was "too busy running the city to call me back." "I don’t see it as a political, `Hey I’m keeping up with Willie Wilson’ kind of thing. I didn’t attach the two at all. She’s just trying to do something to, temporarily, make things better for folks …. It’s her trying to do something positive," Harris said.
"I don’t know how we get people that type of relief that would be meaningful. But maybe just 3 cents a gallon would be symbolic and taken by some of the cynics that it is a political ploy. If it was me, I would probably not do it to not feed into the cynicism of the public that you’re just doing something as a political stunt."
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