More Things for Chicago to Tax

This time it is bottled water. Why you ask? The alderman who is proposing the idea says this.

Cardenas noted that there’s a nearly $40 million shortfall in the city’s water and sewer funds, in part because of a decline in water usage.
“How is this possible when we have a water system that’s won honors? It’s because bottled water has become a $15 billion industry that’s growing at a rate of 20 to 30 percent a year,” he said.

So lets tax businesses so that people will not use their product and instead use ours. Wow that is wrong.